A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe ...

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

The most tragic event in modern astronomy isn’t a funding cut or a launch failure. It is a “missed connection.” Right now, a neutron star collision somewhere in the distant universe is blasting out a ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A puzzling glow of high-energy light is shining from the center of the Milky Way, across a region thousands of light years wide. New supercomputer work shows that two ideas may explain the signal – ...

Crush & Tell's second episode features Candy Crush software engineer Tobi Ibikunle, who highlights Saga Adventures' role in building a narrative. We take a deeper dive with Ibikunle into the creation ...

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 ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...

Astronomers have discovered the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, revealing that a black hole literally consumed a star from the inside out over the course of seven hours. The event, dubbed GRB ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, briefly outshining entire galaxies in a violent flash of high energy radiation. These - excuse the pun - astronomical detonations ...

A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...