Astronomers from around the world have long been fascinated by the mysterious radio signals bombarding our planet from deep in outer space, with some onlookers linking them to a possible extraterrestrial intelligence. A new study by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) in British Columbia has discovered that a mystery radio source in a galaxy some 500 million lightyears from our solar system is sending out fast radio bursts like clockwork in 16.35 day cycles, including 1-2 bursts per hour over a four day period and then 12 days of silence before starting up again. Read full article at: https://sputniknews.com/science/202002081078260539-first-contact-something-in-space-is-sending-earth-signals-like-clockwork-scientists-dont-know-why/

The source of Fast Radio Bursts has remained unknown since their discovery in 2007. A group of scientists have found the source of another such repeating transient event and it seems to be closest to Earth yet. The source of the newest discovery is radically different from that of not only the previously located repeating FRB, but also all previously studied FRBs and thus blurs the differences between repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts. Read full article at: https://strangesounds.org/2020/01/repeated-fast-radio-burst-origin-discovery-astronomy-mystery.html