“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies. In just thousandths of a ...

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

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

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...

A mysterious fast radio burst from a dead galaxy challenges theories, hinting at unknown cosmic forces producing powerful ...

Unusual detection bolsters evidence that the mysterious signals can be caused by different astrophysical events.

The CHIME telescopes in British Columbia detected the unusual fast radio burst, dubbed FRB 20240209A, in February 2024.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief emissions of radio waves, lasting a fraction of a second but with as much energy as the ...

Scientists detected an 'alien' signal from an 11.3-billion-year-old neighboring galaxy located two billion light-years from ...