A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe? Scientists have known about these energetic pulses — ...

HONOLULU — Mysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky and nobody knows why. A newly discovered example of this transient phenomenon has been traced to its place of ...

A team of astronomers spotted RBFLOAT, one of the brightest fast radio bursts ever seen, and traced it to a galaxy 130 million light-years away. Using CHIME’s new Outrigger array, researchers ...

How much does the universe weigh? It’s a simple question with an answer so complex that scientists have devised several ways to calculate the mass of, well, everything and arrived at many different ...

Things are only getting more confusing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. HONOLULU — Mysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio ...

Now scientists say they have, for the first time, traced one such flash to a galaxy about six billion light years from Earth. Invisible to the human eye, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio wave ...

For a fraction of a second in late April, a hyper-magnetized star in the Milky Way suddenly blasted out radio energy. Now scientists say that this sudden, strange blip could help to explain one of ...

Astronomers think they’ve spotted the first example of a superbright blast of radio waves, called a fast radio burst, originating within the Milky Way. Dozens of these bursts have been sighted in ...