A fast radio burst detected last year has been traced to a deeply unusual source. Although most of these radio signals ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

In October 2022, a blast of light from deep space outshone anything humanity has ever witnessed. The gamma-ray burst, later named “The BOAT,” unleashed more energy in seconds than our sun will emit in ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

Current gamma ray telescope arrays are using much of the same technology used in the 1960s by his grandfather, Benbow said. Cherenkov array members first proposed the revolutionary design for the ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

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