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

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

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

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

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

This unique gamma-ray source will generate a beam of gamma rays like those that existed in the first minutes of our universe after the Big Bang. The high-flux, monochromatic and energy-tunable gamma ...

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

A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly ...

In a remarkable astronomical event, scientists recently detected the longest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, an explosion that lasted an astonishing seven hours. This unprece ...

In 2019, the world was mesmerized by the first-ever image of a black hole, courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The striking image depicted the supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

A NASA-funded scientist has produced a new type of picture of the Earth from space, which complements the familiar image of our “blue marble”. This new picture is the first detailed image of our ...

RI Research Instruments, a company that is majority-owned by Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR), today announced orders for key components and enabling subsystems for the research gamma ray source of ...