Gamma-Ray Burst

StarBurst, a wide-field gamma ray observatory, arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, March 4 for environmental testing and final instrument integration.

New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, showing some of the oldest light we can possibly see.

Or, why smart people are bad at making predictions about the future.

Preventing biofilm formation in space

Today, the European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations. During its 22 years in space, Integral has reshaped our view of the most dramatic events in the universe. The high-energy observatory played a pivotal role in revealing the nature of the cosmic explosions known as gamma-ray bursts and in uncovering the origin of gravitational wave events. Recently, it delivered unique insights into how…

These latest findings further support the Hubble Space Telescope's prior expansion rate measurements.

Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That's a problem for our ideas about the universe.

The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion in the universe, according to a recent analysis of observations collected over the last several months.

The secrets of black holes and dark matter could lie before the Big Bang, a new study of "bouncing" cosmology hints.

Of all of the monthly meetings between the moon and Venus this year, this one is by far the closest. The only caveat is that the pair won't be very high, as ...

Using NASA's Fermi telescope, astronomers have discovered a hidden "annihilation feature" in the gamma-ray burst known as the "BOAT," or the "brightest of...

Scientists have announced a never-before-seen energy peak that resulted from the largest gamma ray burst in history, NASA announced Thursday.

The gamma ray burst known as GRB221009A is the biggest explosion astronomers have ever glimpsed and we might finally know what caused the blast

In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT—the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before.

The advent of AI has been hailed by many as a societal game-changer, as it opens a universe of possibilities to improve nearly every aspect of our lives.

The brightest gamma-ray burst of all time came from a supernova but mysteriously didn't show signs of heavy elements

In October 2022, surveys monitoring the skies for explosions in space started going off like a frog in a sock.

But astronomers are puzzled by the lack of signatures of expected heavy elements.

Massive dying stars emit large amounts of radiation.

The detection of gravitational waves stands as one of the most significant achievements in modern physics. In 2017, gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star were detected for the first time which uncovered crucial information about our universe, from the origin of short gamma-ray bursts to the formation of heavy elements.