A constellation of tiny satellites could revolutionize the study of the most energetic explosion in the cosmos and help astronomers untangle the mysteries of colliding stellar remnants that produce ...

Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated ...

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion ...

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

Our solar system was hit by a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded space equipment and telescopes. The gamma-ray, dubbed the "brightest of all time," hit our solar system last fall. Scientists said ...

"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 ...

An astounding gamma-ray burst, dubbed GRB 221009A, continues to amaze even though it has been more than a year since it was detected. Scientists from Italy have recently published a study that shows ...

An Italian team of astronomers has observed the afterglow of a Gamma-Ray Burst that is the farthest known ever. With a measured redshift of 6.3, the light from this very remote astronomical source has ...

On 2 July 2025, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB 250702B) of a record seven hours in ...

In October, scientists were stunned by the detection of the brightest gamma ray burst, intense explosions observed in distant galaxies, known to man. Dazzled by its striking flash, scientists aptly ...

On the morning of October 9, 2022, multiple space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) passing through our Solar System, sending astronomers around the world scrambling to train ...