By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Using the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a powerfully magnetic neutron star in the Milky ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

Gamma-ray bursts have revealed that the largest structure in the universe, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, is bigger ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth. The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using ... massive component turns into a neutron star that is then spun up due to accretion ...

Its proximity to the supernova remnant HB9 once suggested a supernova birth. However, with only 80 arcminutes separating them ...

Cosmic particles with phenomenal energy have puzzled scientists for decades. A new theory may finally unveil their origin.

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

"Our gamma-ray burst sample is not large enough to place ... two ultradense stellar remnants called neutron stars in double-star systems.