Scientists have been all aflutter since several space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) in October 2022—a burst so energetic that astronomers nicknamed it the BOAT (Brightest ...

Researchers have discovered “a natural ignition mechanism” that may explain the origin of the eerie blue flames.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the stars ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has performed observations of a galaxy cluster ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Spectra of the night sky, taken at Lick Observatory in 1988 and 1989 as byproducts of nebular spectra, show the great increase of light ...