Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star.

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

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

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 ...

Now, astronomers have zeroed in on the surprising origin of the unusual radio pulses: a dead star, called a white dwarf, that is closely orbiting a small ... only traced to neutron stars, the ...

Astronomers have discovered that a pair of stars—one white dwarf and one red dwarf—are sending out radio pulses every two ...

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

Their work is published in Physical Review Letters. Neutron stars present other challenges besides a humongous density. Their small size makes them impossible to study visually with telescopes ...

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