Astronomers have just detected the brightest cosmic flash ever recorded—an ultra-powerful radio burst from deep space that’s ...

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 ...

The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

A rare and vivid atmospheric event has been captured from orbit, offering scientists new insight into how lightning behaves far above Earth’s weather systems. Astronauts aboard the International Space ...

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

Space news in 2025 is just wild. Every week, it feels like something new is happening—Mars rovers sending back weird photos, ...

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 ...