A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cosmic flash, known as GRB 250702B, wasn’t just another gamma-ray burst—it was the longest-lasting one ever recorded, blazing ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an ...

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 ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

Artist's rendition of GRB 250702B's ultra-relativistic jet (moving at nearly the speed of light) escaping from its dusty, massive host galaxy. Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...