From across the Milky Way galaxy, something has been sending out signals. Every two hours or so, a pulse of radio waves ripples through space-time, appearing in data going back years. Now a team of ...

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Astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, have made a startling discovery about a new type of cosmic phenomenon. The ...

New research has traced a radio burst from deep in the Milky Way back to its original source. Mark Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO Astronomers are dialed in for this discovery. Researchers for the ...

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 ...

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A team of international astronomers have discovered a new cosmic object emitting both radio waves and x-rays. Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in ...