The second International Conference on the on Physics of the Two Infinities gathered nearly 200 participants in Tokyo.

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Across the sky, brief and violent flashes of energy are arriving from far beyond the Milky Way, each one lasting less than ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to spot one of the most distant supernovae ever confirmed. It was linked to a powerful gamma-ray burst that flashed across the universe when ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

Astronomers spend careers watching stars collapse and explode, but an eruption spotted in July pushed beyond anything seen before. The event, called GRB 250702B, released high-energy radiation for ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in the late 1960s. You might be wondering ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...