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 ...
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 ...
Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite is the first space telescope funded by the Australian Space Agency to carry a scientific ...
The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...