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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...