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

The collision of two neutron stars creates a cosmic explosion so powerful it forges gold, unleashes gravitational waves, and ...

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

Researchers have detected a gamma-ray burst outside of the Milky Way that's unlike any previously observed. There's no ...

Gamma-Ray Bursts are the most energetic explosions known in the universe and they release intense gamma radiation, it could ...

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

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 ...

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, ...

Researcher Xiong Shaolin from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced that gamma-ray bursts are among the most violent explosive phenomena in the universe.

The Big Bang may have spawned these theoretical black holes, whose lives are thought to end in a burst of extremely energetic particles.

A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn't just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe's most powerful outbursts. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) recorded on 2 July 2025 ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...