A fast radio burst detected last year has been traced to a deeply unusual source. Although most of these radio signals emanate from deep space and are no thought to be technological in origin, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst ...

“We got excited thinking we’d discovered an unknown object near Earth,” said Clancy James, an associate professor at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy in Western Australia. The signal’s origin ...

So, has the long-dead satellite has suddenly sprung back to life after nearly 6 decades? Astronomers say that's unlikely. The team of astronomers discovered the strange signal while hunting for bright ...