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

The afterglow of a gamma-ray burst in the southern constellation of Carina – more distant than any high-energy flare ever observed – has been detected by a network of spacecraft spread over the solar ...

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

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...

Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...

The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models of the universe due to its incredibly vast size — and now, using the most ...

This artist's impression shows a kilonova produced by two colliding neutron stars. While studying the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB), two independent teams of astronomers using a host of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab In 2022, scientists spotted a ...