Astronomers recently discovered a strange repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts coming from outside our galaxy. “Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought ...

Fast radio bursts are having a moment in the science community. After another repeating fast radio signal was traced to a nearby galaxy last month, a new study found that this burst occurs in a ...

Researchers say they are puzzled over the discovery. Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of ...

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have fascinated astronomers ever since they were first observed in 2007. We’ve only started to understand these powerful signals and have yet to figure out their cause. Some ...