"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years." ...

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 a remarkable astronomical event, scientists recently detected the longest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, an explosion that lasted an astonishing seven hours. This unprece ...

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

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

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

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

This old galaxy is having a blast.

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

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

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

Gamma-ray bursts are brief but immensely powerful explosions that occur in distant galaxies. They are characterized by the release of gamma rays, which are the highest-energy form of light. Since ...