Astronomers have detected a repeating fast radio burst in a dwarf galaxy located 3 billion light-years away. The discovery suggests that there may be more than one type of this mysterious object.

The combination of a software glitch and bad luck convinced astronomers that a one-in-a-million burst of light occurred in our closest galaxy this week. What the slip-up teaches us about the ...

The brightest gamma-ray burst in human history was recently detected, scientists with the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced on Tuesday. Nicknamed the BOAT, Brightest of All Time, NASA s… ...

Astronomers may have detected the most powerful flash of light ever seen. The so-called gamma-ray burst was also the nearest ever observed.

NASA said that GRB 221009A is only the seventh gamma-ray burst we’ve detected that creates these x-ray rings. The echoes came from dust located between 700 and 61,000 light-years away.

A bubble-like burst of light captured on two Hawaii telescopes last week likely has a terrestrial origin, observers say. The mysterious phenomenon took place in the wee hours of the morning on ...

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A Burst of Light Unlike Any Captured Before. Astronomers say they have captured an unexpected spark from a collision of two black holes. By Marina Koren. Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC) ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have detected a mysterious, repeating fast radio burst emanating from a dwarf galaxy located 3 billion light-years away. The cosmic object is distinctive when ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious, repeating fast radio burst emanating from a dwarf galaxy located 3 billion light-years away. The cosmic object is distinctive when compared with other ...