Astronomers previously thought all FRBs were generated by magnetars formed through the explosions of very young, massive stars. But new FRB is pinpointed to the outskirts of 11.3-billion-year-old ...

These FRBs, named FRB 20240209A, are located outside of the massive ancient elliptical galaxy it is associated with that only contains old and dead stars, Shah said. Using the James Webb Space ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

When he and his team plotted the signals, they found that the source sat in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy about 2 billion light years from Earth. This galaxy is around 11.3 ...

Each planet, including the six involved in this alignment (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), follows an elliptical path around the Sun. This elliptical shape is a result of the ...

Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with ...