Scientists have confirmed it — space holds disasters powerful enough to wipe out civilization. From gamma ray bursts to rogue asteroids, this is the briefing on how the universe could end our world.

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

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 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 kilonova formed by colliding neutron stars releases gamma ray bursts powerful enough to vaporize atmospheres within a ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to look for an ...

In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team led by astronomer Run-Chao Chen of Nanjing ...

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