Astronomers have observed the longest-lasting central engine activity ever recorded from a gamma-ray burst. The burst ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

Watch NASA's simulation of colliding neutron stars, a violent cosmic event that intertwines magnetic fields and unleashes powerful gamma-ray bursts. British Epstein whistleblower found dead Michael ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

On March 21, 2026, China's Einstein Probe space telescope caught a seven-minute flash of soft X-rays from a galaxy 500 million light-years away — and in doing so, captured only the second confirmed ...

Earth was hit by a huge burst of gamma rays originating from a star nearly 2 billion lightyears away, according to the European Space Agency. The gamma ray burst caused a disturbance in Earth's ...