Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century ...

“We chewed heavy metal down and spat it out our own way,” says Kai. “Someone came up with the idea to call it ‘power metal’.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the stars in their host galaxy combined, releasing more energy than our sun will emit ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new "spider" millisecond pulsar, which received designation PSR J1544−2555. The finding was presented in a research paper published ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

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 ...

Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite is the first space telescope funded by the Australian Space Agency to carry a scientific ...