Fast radio bursts, strong pulses of energy detected in radio-wave frequencies, may be a common phenomenon in the cosmos, but their enigmatic origins are something astronomers are only beginning to ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, ...

Indian astronomers have performed multi-frequency observations of a repeating fast radio burst designated FRB 20201124A.

Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron ...

The dazzling RBFLOAT radio burst, originating in a nearby galaxy, offers the clearest view yet of the environment around these mysterious flashes. (Nanowerk News) A fast radio burst is an immense ...

The mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) just got a little bit weirder. A team of astronomers has just traced a burst called FRB 20190208A back to the distant galaxy that spat it out – and they found a ...

With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...