Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite is the first space telescope funded by the Australian Space Agency to carry a scientific ...

The international CTAO LST Collaboration has released remarkable findings from observations of GRB 221009A—the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

It's a celestial event that has astronomers both excited and puzzled. Dan Smith has the story of how a gamma-ray burst across ...

Researchers have detected a gamma-ray burst outside of the Milky Way that's unlike any previously observed. There's no ...

In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team led by astronomer Run-Chao Chen of Nanjing ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) designated GRB 250702B set itself apart from other explosive bursts of ...

Although this spiral galaxy appears unremarkable from afar, NGC 7456 is bursting with newborn stars and glowing gas, ...

Astronomers just caught a dead star in a distant galaxy throwing a massive temper tantrum. A magnetar in galaxy M82 recently sent a huge burst of gamma rays and other radiation blasting out into space ...

An artist’s visualization of the BOAT, consisting of jets from a central black hole and the surrounding remains of a star going supernova. Illustration: Aaron M. Geller / Northwestern / CIERA / IT ...