A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but other ...

Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery behind a nearly two-decade-old cosmic explosion that seemed to break the ...

NASA’s formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our view of ...

In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way ...

A supernova 2.4 billion light-years away exploded, shooting a jet of particles right at Earth. The energy of a single photon ...

Picture taking the single most energetic explosion the universe produces and hurling it directly at one of the most powerful ...

From nuclear war and massive asteroids to pandemics and cosmic disasters, the documentary ranks potential extinction events ...

In 2022, astronomers detected an absurdly bright and long-lasting gamma ray burst, GRB 221009A —nicknamed “BOAT,” for ...

How did a photon survive a journey of more than 2 billion light-years when, according to known physics, it should have been ...

Scientists reveal how a record-breaking photon from the BOAT gamma-ray burst may have survived its journey across billions of light-years to Earth.

The Swift rescue mission was always risky. NASA awarded Katalyst a $30 million contract less than a year ago to build and launch the Link satellite. NASA said Katalyst had to launch the rescue mission ...

Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take ...