According to Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese research team utilized data from the “Huairou-1” satellite to observe a special gamma-ray burst and found that it may be driven by a newly formed magnetar ...

Tianwen 2 will collect samples and deliver them back to Earth in late 2027, using a reentry capsule. Then the spacecraft will ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found to be much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, called extreme nuclear ...

Such work paid off, with NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft and Europe's INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) both independently detecting a gamma-ray burst designated ... On Jan.

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 ...

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...

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