Astronomers have witnessed a young, sun-like star blasting out high-energy gamma radiation for the first time. The observation represents the first evidence that this type of low-mass star, called a T ...

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

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

Further investigation of GRB 250702B will be needed to both more accurately pinpoint its location and to determine what caused this long-lasting repeating blast of gamma-rays. One explanation would be ...

A bright flash of gamma rays observed March 28 by the Swift satellite may have been the death rattle of a star falling into a massive black hole and being ripped apart, according to a team of ...

New data on the gamma-ray burst "GRB 221009A", observed in October 2022, confirm theoretical models suggesting that these bursts of exceptionally intense electromagnetic waves generate ...

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 ...

GREENBELT, Md. — Astronomers combining data from NASA’s Swift satellite, the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and other facilities have, for the first time, identified gas molecules in the host ...

Gamma-ray bursts were traced to the nucleus of an ancient galaxy about 3 billion light-years away from Earth. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 23, 2023 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a ...