Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...

One of the brightest explosions in our galaxy may have produced more heavy elements than expected. The gamma-ray burst from a magnetar in 2004 has now been identified as a major source of gold, ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most violent eruptions. In findings published in Nature Astronomy, scientists ...