A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new field in space science. The first was discovered in the late 1960s, and in the nearly six decades since, there’s never been a discovery quite like this. It may ...

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Astronomers have spotted an extraordinarily long-lived cosmic explosion lasting more than seven hours, breaking the record as the longest known gamma-ray burst. The event, known as GRB 250702B, took ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that’s not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting. Telescopes on Earth and in space — ...

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...