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.