Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The waves' origin is unknown, so they hint at the existence of a new type of celestial object. The signal doesn't look like the ...
A team of astronomers has uncovered what may be the first object ever associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) in another ...
Astronomers have detected faint radio signals from a neutron star that was thought to be completely silent for decades. Known ...
It's the latest in a series of mysterious radio signals that may point to new types of dead stars. Astronomers are looking for more of these signals — and hoping ones they've discovered will reappear.
Roughly a year ago, astronomers announced that they had observed an object that shouldn’t exist. Like a pulsar, it emitted regularly timed bursts of radio emissions. But unlike a pulsar, those bursts ...
There's something unusual lurking out in the depths of space: Astronomers have discovered four faint objects that at radio wavelengths are highly circular and brighter along their edges. And they're ...
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The objects, which look like distant ring-shaped islands, have been dubbed odd radio circles, or ORCs, for their shape and overall peculiarity. Astronomers don't yet know exactly how far away these ...