Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...
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 ...
Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...