Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

The Universe isn’t always kind to life, with countless ways in which Earth could be destroyed, though some scenarios are more ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

This artist’s illustration, which shows a high-speed jet of material being launched from a source that is embedded in a very dusty galaxy, depicts GRB 250702B — the longest gamma-ray burst that ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) — the most energetic type of explosion in the universe since the Big Bang — is detected once every day, on average. But what happened on July 2, 2025, was highly unusual: ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

Three Harvard faculty said they think fears that an artificial intelligence bubble will burst — leading stock prices to collapse in the wake of soaring investments into AI companies — are overblown ...

Wow, it looks like the 2025 sneaker year isn’t over yet. While overall this has been the weakest year of this decade for sneaker releases (blame an oversaturated market, the economy, and a shift in ...

Michael Burry, the investor known for his “Big Short” investment, has issued a warning about the unpredictability of an AI bubble burst. He has also criticized Nvidia‘s role in contributing to the ...