"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

This gamma-ray burst has come from two billion light-years ... the first capable of simultaneously observing objects in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light. Launched in October 2002, it studies ...

An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy ... a level that is hundreds of billions of times greater than visible light.

A new study reports that, along with visible light emissions, thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays, the ...

Brave New World is about to hit cinemas, bringing with it the gamma-ray-powered Red Hulk. Here's what you need to know about ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts ... which are visible from up to 100,000 light ...

An illustration shows a gamma-ray burst erupting from a dying massive star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) First detected in 1967, gamma-ray bursts may be much more familiar to ...

Gamma-ray bursts are observed occurring all across ... Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and so is the visible light that our eyes have evolved to see. All electromagnetic ...