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

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.

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

"Historically, astronomy has left an indelible mark on human society and played a pivotal role in intellectual enlightenment," Jiang believes. He asserts that astronomy not only sparks scientific ...

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

Since then, radio telescopes such as the CHIME instrument at our observatory, which have very large fields of view have ...

A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...

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