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

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

An explosion — about 100 times brighter than previously recorded — blinded scientists' instruments. Scientists marveled at the power of the gamma-ray jet, which likely marked the birth of a black hole ...

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 ...

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 ...

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a powerful explosion, orange dot at the center of the image, that repeated several times over the course of a day, The image, taken with ...

The aftermath of a collapsed and exploded star, a dramatic cosmic event called a supernova. (This is *not* the collapsed star responsible for the historic gamma ray burst described below, which ...

WASHINGTON – A powerful stellar explosion detected March 19 by NASA’s Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye. The explosion was a ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that’s not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting. Telescopes on Earth and in space — ...