Thanks to ESA satellites, an international team including UNIGE researchers has detected a giant eruption coming from a ...
Astronomers just caught a dead star in a distant galaxy throwing a massive temper tantrum.
Scientists have seen a sudden explosion coming from a rare object in a nearby galaxy. Researchers believe that the burst must ...
Astronomers believe they have found a rare, massive flare that erupted from an extremely magnetic dead star, or magnetar, ...
“We immediately realised that this was a special alert. Gamma-ray bursts come from far-away and anywhere in the sky, but this ...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun ...
The gamma-ray burst blinded gamma-ray telescopes on Earth and shook the upper parts of our planet's atmosphere.
An enormous burst of gamma rays from 2.4 billion light-years away that struck Earth last year has been revealed to be caused ...
As the semester begins to slow down, scientific discovery has not. This week’s science news in review explores new findings ...
A flurry of shooting stars will flicker in the night sky as the weekend comes to a close and Earth Day kicks off, presenting ...
James Webb Space Telescope observations show no sign of heavy elements. In October 2022, an international team of researchers ...
Most of these cataclysms are remote, but when they occur closer to home they can pose a threat to life on Earth.