Scientists studying the famous 'Wow! signal' think they've finally pinpointed a possible origin for the baffling radio transmission detected in 1977.

Astronomers have detected the closest and brightest fast radio burst ever recorded, a dazzling signal from a galaxy just 130 million light-years away. The extraordinary flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, ...

The powerful signal, FRB 20250316A, was first spotted in March by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, a radio telescope in British Columbia. The burst lasted less than ...

However, as time passed, scientists began to question this explanation. They reexamined a large amount of historical data and analyzed it using modern scientific methods. Recent studies suggest that ...

It’s been nearly 50 years since astronomers detected the most famous space signal we’ve ever received—a 72-second radio burst that lit up a printout at Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope in 1977.

Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could ...