In October 2022, a blast of light from deep space outshone anything humanity has ever witnessed. The gamma-ray burst, later named “The BOAT,” unleashed more energy in seconds than our sun will emit in ...

A sobering new simulation illustrates how a nuclear explosion would brutally impact the human body, shedding light on both ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The explosion, known as a gamma ray burst, was spotted last January, and it took investigators eight months to figure out where it came from. GRB 000131, as it is known, came from the southern ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of ...

Satellite images reveal damage, but experts suggest that new technology may be able to verify what actually happened ...

If you’ve lived in or visited Manhattan, the landmarks at the epicenter would be familiar – One World Trade, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge. This is rightly strong in the emotional stakes.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Today in the history of astronomy, satellites Vela 3 and 4 make the first detection of gamma-ray bursts.

The new telescope design will allow gamma ray astronomers to use more modern camera sensors. Current gamma ray telescope arrays are using much of the same technology used in the 1960s by his ...

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.