What would happen if you took the most energetic explosion in the Universe and sent it straight into one of the most powerful ...

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...

NASA successfully launched its mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on July 3, just over nine months after ...

Gamma-ray burst GRB 260623A was detected by NASA’s Fermi telescope morning at 12:56 UTC Tuesday, triggering a global ...

A team of astronomers have observed an explosion in the universe unlike any ever witnessed before. The gamma-ray bursts from outside the Milky Way galaxy repeated several times over the course of a ...

A new study led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signals in an unusual gamma-ray burst (GRB) event. The findings are ...

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...

It's commonly believed that there's no sound in space, but that's far from the case. For instance, sonifications from NASA have allowed us to hear the sounds of a black hole, and, in 2025, astronomers ...