Also, to observe this effect, you need a satellite that can make observations, orbiting in this layer,” Piersanti said. Such a satellite happened to orbit the Earth at an altitude of 507 km.

When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for ...

Now, a team of astronomers from MIT has pinpointed the origin of one such burst, FRB 20221022A, to the magnetosphere of a ...

A fast radio burst (FRB), thought to stem from compact astronomical objects like neutron stars (a supergiant star left behind from a supernova) and potentially black holes, produces a scintillation ...