Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb explains that alignments between interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and gamma-ray bursts are statistically expected, with a dozen coincidences occurring over 8,000 years of Solar ...

In July 2025, NASA detected an unusually long-lasting and intense gamma-ray burst (GRB) from deep space, the origin of which ...

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...

Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of ...