The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not behave like a quick cosmic flash. Instead, it burned across the sky for ...

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after a blast detected in July set a new record by firing energetic jets for ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...

"This explosion gave off more energy in a few seconds than the sun will over its entire life." Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better ...

While the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens were butting heads and other body parts a couple of Sundays ago, they were simultaneously taking a whole different type of pounding, though they ...