A new study now extends the researchers' previous work, but with a wider GRB sample. Hakkila and Zsolt Bagoly, authors of the study, have refined the measurements. They detected a number of relatively ...

A sudden, record-breaking gamma-ray burst lit up the cosmos—leaving scientists stunned and searching for answers. the ...

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Three-body problem: A longstanding problem in classical mechanics that tries to calculate the trajectories of three masses ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

The largest cosmic structure ever observed by astronomers is revealing its biggest cosmic secrets yet, with a little help ...

Astronomers have revised the scale of the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall using gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) — the most ...

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

In a recent study, the scientists found that the crystals formed in microgravity could be found in better quality than on ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a magnetar a supermagnetic neutron star speeding across our galaxy. Its name? SGR ...