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Simulations show gamma-ray bursts are created when neutron stars collide, Doomsday looks at what one could do to Earth if it hit. This episode of Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End examines what ...

Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers picked up what is known as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, that had raced towards Earth from deep space. It has been named GRB 200826A.

According to a news release from NASA, the largest gamma-ray burst ever detected hit Earth on October 9, 2022. Astronomers are calling it the B.O.A.T., or biggest of all time , but officially it ...

NASA has confirmed that our solar system was struck by a gamma-ray burst originating 1.9 billion light-years away that was brighter than any since the beginning of human civilization in a "1 in ...

What would happen to Earth if it were hit by a gamma-ray burst? Gamma ray bursts happen when neutron stars collide or when giant stars explode into black holes, ...

A huge surge of gamma-ray energy from space caused electric currents to flow through the surface of the Earth on October 9, scientists have said.. This gamma-ray burst, named GRB221009A, is the ...

Fifteen years after its discovery, two astronomers say earth may still lie within the sights of a potentially lethal progenitor of a stellar gamma-ray burst (GRB). Although WR 104, a Wolf-Rayet ...

Radiation from the explosion — a gamma-ray burst (GRB) known as GRB 221009A — swept over Earth on Oct. 9, 2022. It saturated gamma-ray detectors on multiple space telescopes, earning the ...

Nicknamed “BOAT”—that is, “brightest of all time”—the gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A washed over Earth on October 9, 2022. Emerging from an extragalactic source, this burst was ...