Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they determined it could be the work of a black hole destroying a star.

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

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, with data from multiple space and ground observatories.

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

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb explains that alignments between interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and gamma-ray bursts are statistically expected, with a dozen coincidences occurring over 8,000 years of Solar ...

In a remarkable astronomical event, scientists recently detected the longest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, an explosion that lasted an astonishing seven hours. This unprece ...

Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe presents. We feel safe from the dangers of the vacuum of space, where radiation sizzles and ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...