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

Few things in space are as bright as a supernova, but recently astronomer captured a flash out in the cosmos so great their ...

SiliconRepublic.com visited the EIRSAT-1 mission control at University College Dublin, just weeks before the project comes to ...

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...