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In what's being called a "turning point," researchers has traced back the location of the origin of one of the brightest fast radio bursts.
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Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space
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Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space

By Victor Tangermann

While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.
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Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The signal is know as a fast radio burst (FRB), and it is the oldest and most powerful of its kind ever detected.
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Scientists Intercept Signal That Took 8 Billion Years to Reach Earth

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have discovered a suspected magnetar, which has been sending out radio waves every 22 minutes since at least 1988.
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Mysterious Space Object Has Been Pulsing Every 20 Minutes Since the 1980s

By Victor Tangermann

A group of astronomers argues fast radio bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging, an event that releases a huge electromagnetic charge.
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Astronomers May Have Just Found the Smoking Gun Behind Mysterious Radio Signals

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers has discovered a total of 25 different fast radio bursts, extremely powerful pulses of radio waves, that repeat in complex patterns.
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Astronomers Intrigued by 25 Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have identified a mysterious new fast radio burst (FRB) that beats at regular intervals much like a heart.
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MIT Scientists Discover Deep Space Signal, Pulsing Like Heartbeat

By Victor Tangermann

An accidentally-poignant study suggests that some planets may emit a scream-like blast of cosmic radio waves and they crumble out of existence. 
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Planets Scream as They’re Ripped Apart, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research found over 500 new fast radio bursts, giving scientists much more to work with as they figure out what's causing them.
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Scientists Found Hundreds of New Mysterious Signals From Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers found new patterns of a fast radio burst on a microsecond scale, suggesting we could hone in on their location.
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Scientists Find New Patterns In Mysterious Radio Pulses From Distant Galaxies

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysics professor Ray Norris discusses how he and his colleagues spotted strange, unusually shaped objects in recent radio astronomical data.
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Astronomers Puzzled by “Ghostly” Unidentified Objects in Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have presented new evidence that a magnetar within the Milky Way was the source of a strange fast radio burst recorded in April.
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Astronomers Pinpoint Source of Mysterious Radio Burst Signal

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers were able to track down a mysterious fast radio burst thanks to years of previous research allowing them to predict when it woke up.
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That Mysterious Space Signal Just Woke Up Again, Just as Predicted

By Victor Tangermann

In late April, the international team observed a massively bright outburst of X-rays and radio waves. They traced it back to a magnetar in the Milky Way.
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A Dead Star Gave Off Something Scientists Have Never Seen Before

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers have discovered a "fast radio burst" (FRB) signal, mysterious flashes of millisecond wave energy, that repeats itself every 157 days
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Astronomers Record Signal Coming From Deep Space Every 157 Days

By Victor Tangermann