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

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, ...

This gamma-ray burst (GRB), named GRB 250702B, stood out from normal cosmic explosions, as it erupted several times in one day.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

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

For a few seconds every day, Earth is bombarded by gamma rays created by cataclysmic explosions in distant galaxies. Such explosions, similar to supernovae, are known as ‘gamma-ray bursts’ or GRBs.

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

Typical gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, usually associated with the collapse of massive stars or the merging of compact objects like neutron stars. They ...

Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside of our galaxy. Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data ...

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise — it appears to be radiating gamma rays, according to an analysis by physicists at Carnegie Mellon, Brown, and ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the stars ...

An artist's rendering of gamma-ray glows observed during the research, with gamma rays colored purple for emphasis NASA / ALOFT mission Two hundred and seventy-two years after that June afternoon when ...