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

It's a celestial event that has astronomers both excited and puzzled. Dan Smith has the story of how a gamma-ray burst across ...

A rare and vivid atmospheric event has been captured from orbit, offering scientists new insight into how lightning behaves ...

Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, ...

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

Fast radio bursts are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, releasing as much energy in milliseconds as the sun produces in days. Since their discovery more than a decade ago, ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

An international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto, have detected the brightest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to date—and have been able to pinpoint its ...

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 ...

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 ...