Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely ...

These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

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

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

Large stars have cosmically short lifetimes, so the fact that this FRB occurred in an old, long-dead galaxy means that the ...

Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their ...

In February 2024, scientists on Earth detected a powerful radio blast from outer space. Seeking to discover where it had come ...