Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...

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

Large radio telescopes are essential tools for astronomical research, allowing scientists to observe celestial phenomena by detecting radio waves emitted from various sources in the universe.

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) at 10 times their typical efficiency. By sifting through billions of ...

This innovation could pave the way for creating large-scale quantum networks, overcoming one of the key challenges in the field: transmission loss over long distances. “Photonic integrated quantum ...