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

Lightning is a phenomenon that has fascinated humanity since time immemorial, providing a stark example of the power and unpredictability of the natural world. Although the study of lightning can be ...

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

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have unraveled the unusual structure of the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected, known as GRB 221009A, or simply "BOAT." The burst, initially observed ...

Two neutron stars begin to merge in this artist’s concept, blasting jets of high-speed particles. Collision events like this one create short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

Astronomers have determined what caused the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded. Lasting a matter of minutes, the gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, was observed by astronomers in October 2022.

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

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) designated GRB 250702B set itself apart from ... "The VLT fundamentally changed that paradigm." Observations made with the HAWK-I camera showed that GRB 250702B actually ...

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 ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Three researchers ...