Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...
A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...
A 'game-changer' for observations of gamma-ray bursts ...
NASA successfully launched its mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on July 3, just over nine months after ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
At 8:56 AM ET on Tuesday, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope automatically detected a new long-duration gamma-ray burst, designated GRB 260623A, during the sudden collapse of what is likely a star ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...