A cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours: this is the unusual spectacle recently observed by astronomers. Named GRB 250702B ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not roar for seconds or even minutes, but for a staggering seven hours, forcing ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing something special. The cosmic flash GRB 250702B was no ...

Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new field in space science. The first was discovered in the late 1960s, and in the nearly six decades since, there’s never been a discovery quite like this. It may ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron ...

An artist's illustration of two neutron stars merging, creating a gamma-ray burst - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Yuichi YAMAZAKI An artist's illustration of two neutron ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe ...