China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

Long-term observations reveal that at least some fast radio bursts are linked to magnetars orbiting companion stars.

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FAST observations reported by Universe Today and the University of Hong Kong identify a repeating fast radio burst whose ...

A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal ...

An artist's illustration depicts the CHIME's Outrigger array tracing RBFLOAT to its host galaxy. - Daniëlle Futselaar/MMT Observatory Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming ...

Astronomers have found compelling evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate from stars in binary systems rather than from isolated objects. An international group of astronomers, ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

Astronomers have discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts come from binary star systems, not lone stars. FRB 220529A’s unusual signal reveals how magnetars and plasma flares create cosmic ...

Fast radio bursts, or bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves in space, are one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos - and they just became a little stranger. The video in the media ...