The afterglow of the gamma-ray burst as captured by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory's X-ray telescope. NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) On October 9, astronomers detected a bright ...

GRB 211211A’s location, circled in red, captured using three filters on Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. (NASA, ESA, Rastinejad et al. (2022)) Scientists believe they have found an explanation for an ...

Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...

Gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, lasting for a record-breaking seven hours, stunned researchers Researchers have discovered a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) that stands apart from others of its kind. Known as GRB ...

WASHINGTON — The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest ...

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (WSVN) — NASA has announced that it has detected a gamma-ray burst, one of the most powerful classes of explosions in the universe, which it has dubbed “The Boat”. This ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have finally solved the mysterious origins of the "BOAT," possibly the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang. By solving this cosmic ...

As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions.

The aftermath of a collapsed and exploded star, a dramatic cosmic event called a supernova. (This is *not* the collapsed star responsible for the historic gamma ray burst described below, which ...

An extragalactic outburst whose light hurtled through the inner solar system last fall was 70 times brighter than any other such eruption that scientists have observed, researchers report. Astronomers ...

As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions.