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Researchers at the University of Sydney believe they've identified one source of mysterious radio signals arriving from deep ...

A pair of spiralling stars could be a blueprint for decoding mysterious bursts of radio energy coming from space, according to new research. Long-period transients have puzzled radio astronomers since ...

ASKAP J1745 stands out because astronomers have been able to identify what is producing it, unlike 10 of the 12 known long-period transients. It is also especially valuable because it was observed ...

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Something in the universe is sending powerful, regular bursts towards Earth – and now researchers think they have decoded ...

Scientists think they might have decoded the origin of some of the most mysterious and powerful signals coming from space. Researchers have long been puzzled by "long-period radio transients", which ...

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