Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Telescopes operating up and down the electromagnetic spectrum have confirmed that the longest gamma ray burst (GRB) was ...

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.

Astronomers spend careers watching stars collapse and explode, but an eruption spotted in July pushed beyond anything seen ...

This old galaxy is having a blast.

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Thanks to sufficient advance warning, the James Webb Space Telescope was able to study the earliest supernova by far. A gamma-ray burst had announced it.