Gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, lasting for a record-breaking seven hours, stunned researchers Researchers have discovered a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) that stands apart from others of its kind. Known as GRB ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time. The source was a gamma-ray ...

March 29 (UPI) --A gamma-ray burst, which lit up our galaxy last October, was the "brightest burst" ever seen and a once-in-10,000-year explosion, according to NASA. Astronomers have been studying the ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

The brightest gamma ray burst ever detected recently reached our planet. It’s 70 times longer than any other burst we’ve spotted, and effectively blinded our instruments when it hit. Researchers say ...

This July, astronomers were left reeling by an event unlike anything seen before: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that repeated four ...

Astronomers have spotted a bright gamma-ray burst that upends previous theories of how these energetic cosmic eruptions occur. For decades, astronomers thought that GRBs came in two flavors, long and ...

A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA’s Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collision ...

A constellation of tiny satellites could revolutionize the study of the most energetic explosion in the cosmos and help astronomers untangle the mysteries of colliding stellar remnants that produce ...

More and more Hulks are showing up in the MCU and now everyone on Earth may get their own gamma-radiation superpowers. According to a news release from NASA, the largest gamma-ray burst ever detected ...