Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...
On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...
An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...
Astronomers have just detected the brightest cosmic flash ever recorded—an ultra-powerful radio burst from deep space that’s ...
A rare and vivid atmospheric event has been captured from orbit, offering scientists new insight into how lightning behaves ...
The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were ...
Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...
In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...
(CNN) — 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 ...