Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, transient cosmic events, typically originating from massive stellar collapses or mergers of compact objects, which serve as crucial probes for understanding the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in the late 1960s. You might be wondering ...

A constellation of tiny satellites could revolutionize the study of the most energetic explosion in the cosmos and help astronomers untangle the mysteries of colliding stellar remnants that produce ...

Hawai’i (KXAN) – The brightest gamma-ray burst in human history was recently detected, scientists with the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced on Tuesday. Nicknamed the BOAT, Brightest of ...

Astronomers detected a gamma-ray burst so bright, it effectively blinded most gamma-ray instruments in space. The pulse of intense radiation traveled for about 1.9 billion years to reach Earth.

image: Maia Williams, a research technologist at Penn State and a member of Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory's Missions Operation Center, was on call the day that the brightest gamma-ray burst ever ...

In a remarkable cosmic event, astronomers have detected a black hole-star merger that has resulted in the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. This event not only shatters previous records in ...

A bright flash of gamma rays from the constellation Boötes that lasted nearly one minute came from a kilonova, as we described in a new paper. This finding challenges what astronomers know about some ...

Scientists have pinned down the energy produced by an unusually bright gamma-ray burst detected in 2022, and wow is it a whopper. Reading time 2 minutes The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed ...

A new study suggests that explosive events in space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that protects us from harmful solar radiation. By Katrina Miller On Oct. 9, 2022, ...

A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it changed Earth’s atmosphere, according to scientists. Gamma rays are the ...