A powerful blast of energy detected in March marks the brightest fast radio burst — a mysterious type of outburst from space — observed to date. FRBs, first observed in 2007, are millisecond-long ...

With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...

NASA’s experimental Relay 2 satellite had been dead in the sky since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a super-short and very powerful burst of energy out of nowhere. In an interview with New ...

"This result marks a turning point: instead of just detecting these mysterious flashes, we can now see exactly where they're coming from." Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest flash ...