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Natasha Hurley-Walker, Radio Astronomer, Curtin University

Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space

An artist's impression of the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii. Mark Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO, CC BY

Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022.

In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf, the core of another star that exploded long ago.

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