A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

This “monster” radio jet, as outlets such as the Associated Press have deemed it, is streaming from a quasar. Quasar are ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

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

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought could produce such a signal.

"This discovery was really surprising and exciting ... But because the CHIME telescope could not pinpoint the exact location of the radio waves, they combined it with a smaller CHIME-like ...

Fresh research has indicated that astronomers have discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from a far-distant ‘dead’ galaxy ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

Most pulsars, the faster-spinning cousins of ASKAP J1839-0756, are like one-sided flashlights. The axis they spin around is closely aligned to the axis of their magnetic field, which means we only see ...

Pulsars are neutron stars that spin rapidly, emitting radio waves from their magnetic poles ... announced the discovery of a transient with a period of 54 minutes. Now, Caleb and her colleagues ...