Scientists have discovered an exciting new way to uncover how stars are formed by studying their spectacular deaths. Using ...

In space, they’re thought to originate from a star exploding as a supernova or from two dense neutron stars—the leftovers of a supernovae—colliding with each other. This gamma-ray burst has ...

In the new paper, the UC Berkeley team calculates that the best time to find axions around a neutron star might actually be ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

"When we see the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded, we expect to see a bright supernova associated with it," Shrestha said. "We found that there was no clear signal indicating the presence ...

Gamma-ray bursts are explosive events in the universe ... their intense radiation is thought to be released when a star goes ...

Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to the fusion ...

26 issue of the journal Nature. In the past four years, the team of astronomers working at the Smithsonian's Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona has observed high-energy gamma-ray bursts ...

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The last nearby supernova was in 1987 in the Large Magellanic ... cover 100% of the sky 24/7 and be assured of catching any gamma-ray burst. They have even proposed a name for their full-sky ...

UC Berkeley researchers predict solving the dark matter mystery in 10 seconds during a nearby supernova, detecting axions via ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a new pulsar, which received the designation PSR ...