For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

Galaxies are among the most breathtaking structures in the universe, ranging from elegant spirals to massive elliptical ...

Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ancient galaxy 40,000 light-years away.

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the ...

FRB traced unprecedented 130,000 light-years from host galaxy The location of the fast radio burst, indicated by the oval ...