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 ...

Gamma-ray bursts are usually caused by the death of a giant star, but they're typically singular events. This one is unlike any other in 50 years of gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations, according to ...

(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 ...