Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most puzzling astronomical phenomena. These brief yet intense bursts of radio waves, ...

An illustration of a magnetar's magnetic field lines causing energy to flow away from the object itself. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) back to its ...

Is a rotating neutron star powered by rotational energy loss or by magnetic-field decay? The answer seems to be yes. On a dark night you can see a thousand stars above, each like the Sun shining ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited astronomers. It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade ...

A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the "radio-quiet" characteristics of four magnetars and one magnetar-like pulsar.

The burst's host galaxy is more than halfway across the observable universe and up to 100 times fainter than other host galaxies. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...