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

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The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not behave like a quick cosmic flash. Instead, it burned across the sky for ...

Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst. The ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in the late 1960s. You might be wondering ...

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a ...

"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 ...