Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

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

Creating a neutron star Before you can get this ideal cosmic laboratory, a star first has to die. The end of a star’s life depends largely on its mass. Unremarkable stars like the Sun go out with a ...

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, briefly outshining entire galaxies in a violent flash of ...

In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar. Magnetars are a type of neutron star, which are incredibly dense objects mainly made ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious emissions of radio waves that pepper the cosmos. For a few milliseconds, they can outshine every other radio source in a galaxy, and the latest detected by ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...