Roughly half of all the regular matter in the universe has been unaccounted for — until now. In a new study, researchers claim that, using short, extragalactic flashes called fast radio bursts (FRBs), ...

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged galaxy NGC 4141, where astronomers traced the precise origin of a recent fast radio burst and its potential red giant companion, annotated in the inset as NIR-1.

If the thought of receiving radio signals from space conjures an image of Jodie Foster in the movie Contact, hunched over a computer console and listening for spaceship schematics beamed to Earth by ...

Scientists have traced the brightest known fast radio burst to its origin in space, a milestone achievement they hope will provide clues about what's driving these mysterious cosmic flashes. The ...