Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

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

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

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

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 ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA ...

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

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 ...

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

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.