Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

A flash of energetic light lasts only ten seconds, yet it has completely turned around our understanding of the timeline for ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

Webb traced the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 million years old.

Astronomers have spotted an extraordinarily long-lived cosmic explosion lasting more than seven hours, breaking the record as the longest known gamma-ray burst. The event, known as GRB 250702B, took ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

Gamma-ray spectroscopy is a pivotal technique in nuclear science, industry and astrophysics, enabling the precise determination of gamma-ray energies emitted from radioactive sources. Recent advances ...

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

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...