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

In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

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

Astronomers discovered a mysterious 2-hour radio pulse from a hidden white dwarf system, revealing a new type of stellar duo ...

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds ...

Astronomers have finally traced mysterious radio pulses in the Milky Way to a unique cosmic duo—a red dwarf and a white dwarf ...

Scientists have captured a special kind of radio signal from a galaxy that’s nearly 9 billion light-years away from the Earth ...

Artistic illustration showing the radio pulses emitted by the binary star system: a white dwarf in orbit around a red dwarf. Credit Daniëlle Futselaar/artsource.nl In a breakthrough discovery, an ...

Radio astronomers have discovered an unusual phenomenon in recent years. They detected radio pulses from the Milky Way that last from seconds to minutes. These pulses differ from those produced by ...