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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About two billion years ago in a galaxy far beyond our Milky Way, a big star met its demise in a massive explosion called a supernova that unleashed a huge burst of gamma rays, ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

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

Back in October of 2022, astronomers around the world were baffled and awed by the largest gamma-radiation burst we've ever recorded. The burst was so powerful, in fact, that it has been nicknamed the ...

Artist’s impression of a gamma ray burst. Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Last October, astronomers witnessed a fleeting, extraordinarily bright gamma ray burst in the distant universe.

A tremendous cosmic explosion 2.4 billion light years away temporarily changed the electric field in Earth’s ionosphere (the electrically-charged upper layer of our atmosphere that helps shield life ...

Rings of dust that evidence the BOAT, as seen by the XMM-Newton Observatory. Image: ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed ‘BOAT’ (Brightest of All Time), has ...

A massive gamma-ray burst spotted by scientists last year is possibly the most powerful ever detected in the Earth's atmosphere. The gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, is thought to have caused huge ...

A team of astronomers have observed an explosion in the universe unlike any ever witnessed before. The gamma-ray bursts from outside the Milky Way galaxy repeated several times over the course of a ...