Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs)—emanating from somewhere in the northern constellation Ursa Minor.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) continue to baffle astronomers, and a new discovery has added another layer of complexity to this enigmatic phenomenon. According to a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters,