One astronomer dubbed the high-intensity beam of radiation the BOAT: the Brightest of All Time.

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen may have been powered by a unique jet structure, scientists…

Magnetars are the super dense remains of dead stars. Their explosions of X-rays and gamma rays some…

Four billion light years away from Earth, there was an explosion so big that it generated more en…

A new simulation shows that dark matter haloes look the same, whether Earth-sized or many billions …

"The really cool thing about this GRB is that because the exploding matter was traveling at [nearly…

"But even thousands of light years away, a similar event today could cause havoc with the sensitive…

LIGO is just one key way scientists hope to hunt for gravitational waves. It currently consists of …

The origin of cosmic rays, and what could be accelerating the particles in them, has been a mystery…

Astronomers who were looking into the creation of the universe detected an alternative signal using…

Very recently, a team of scientists decided to explore the hypothetical possibility of such a kilon…

The James Webb Space Telescope detected a cosmic phenomenon known as a kilonova, which can create g…

Astronomers think the powerful gamma-ray burst comes from a supernova: the collapse of a dying star…

"It turns out we were missing approximately half of their energy budget until now," Konstancja Sata…

Hints of the structures first emerged in the 1980s, when astronomer and physicist Farhad Yusef-Zade…

Until they fully analyze the data, we can't know for sure that this is a gamma ray burst. Some have…

But, essentially, the telescope has the potential to capture any event that has an electroma…

If you're home planet is in the way, say hello to a mass, if not complete, extinction. It's events …

EMPs are rapid, invisible bursts of electromagnetic energy. They occur in nature, most frequently d…

Dark lightning, on the other hand, uses higher energy charged particles. When those electrically ch…