For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on ...

But for a supernova to produce the strongest type of gamma-ray burst, the star must be some 30 to 40 times the size of the sun. This new powerful detection, so rare that we'll likely only observe ...

But there are other varieties of supernova that are a little bit harder ... there's an entire other category of cosmic explosion. These are the gamma ray bursts. There are two kinds of gamma ...

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The supernova’s glow will endure for months ... This could lead to ecosystem collapse and a potential mass extinction event. Gamma-ray bursts, caused by neutron star mergers, are even more ...