The CRACO radio telescope system processes a massive amount of data in real-time, so it can detect fast radio bursts and ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

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

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space ...

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

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

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.