Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...
Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...
The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...
A tremendous cosmic explosion 2.4 billion light years away temporarily changed the electric field in Earth’s ionosphere (the electrically-charged upper layer of our atmosphere that helps shield life ...
A flash of high-energy light from deep space has forced astronomers to rethink what they thought they knew about the most ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and ...