Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully demonstrated 2 Tbit/s Free-Space ...

NASA’s IXPE identifies the source of X-rays in the black hole jet of galaxy 3C 84, confirming inverse Compton scattering and ...

Two composite images show side-by-side observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.

For years, telescopes have been finding extremely energetic blue stellar explosions that could not be explained until now.

Astronomers have caught a cosmic explosion doing something it was never supposed to do, firing off three powerful gamma-ray ...