Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a ...

Astronomers detected a gamma-ray burst so bright, it effectively blinded most gamma-ray instruments in space. The pulse of intense radiation traveled for about 1.9 billion years to reach Earth.

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

March 29 (UPI) --A gamma-ray burst, which lit up our galaxy last October, was the "brightest burst" ever seen and a once-in-10,000-year explosion, according to NASA. Astronomers have been studying the ...

NASA astronomers recently spotted a burst of radiation that was quickly crowned the "BOAT": the brightest of all time. The source of the radiation, which NASA said "swept through the solar system" on ...

All eyes are on the source of the record-breaking gamma-ray burst that lit up the sky last week. On Oct. 9, a beam of light more energetic than astronomers had ever seen zipped past our planet, ...

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

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NASA has confirmed that on October 9, 2022, our solar system was struck by a gamma-ray burst originating 1.9 billion light-years away that was brighter than any since the beginning of human ...

When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back on Earth can detect them. Studying these pulses, which can also come ...

Scientists running the Interplanetary Network--a cluster of spacecraft from the U.S. and Europe patrolling the skies--described yesterday at a conference in Rome the farthest gamma-ray burst ever ...