This July, astronomers were left reeling by an event unlike anything seen before: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that repeated four ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared to come from the same source. When scientists compiled this data with ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as the star is consumed from within ...

Astronomers have detected the first “heartbeat” of a newborn star within a cosmic explosion, revealing a rapidly spinning magnetar and reshaping the understanding of gamma-ray bursts.

For centuries, humans have sought to study the stars and celestial bodies, whether through observations made by naked eye or ...

This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope ...

New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy ...

Before Sputnik – the first satellite – was launched, something unidentified was lighting up the night sky. A new study ties ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

This week, the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) announced a new campaign that will target 3I/ATLAS.