The BOAT is the ruler of all gamma-ray bursts, releasing as much energy in seconds as the sun will in 10 billion years — and ...

After NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Swift Observatory spotted the BOAT, , an international team of astronomers ...

Step back to the very beginning of time, where the universe as we know it was born from an unimaginable explosion of space ...

It is a kind of afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, released when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old. The CMB provides a window into the hot, dense conditions at the beginning of the universe.

The term ‘Big Bang’ might make you think of a massive explosion. Put the thought out of your head. Rather than an explosion, it was the start of everything in the universe.

The first stars were not just lights in the dark, they were cosmic fire-starters that transformed the universe while seeding ...

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This became known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. It is a kind of afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, released when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old.

The Big Bang didn't emerge from a particular location in space, and it wasn't an explosion — at least not in the traditional sense.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel and undergoes a core ...

REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: When I was a kid, I pictured the Big Bang as a big explosion, a moment in time. But cosmologists now think of the Big Bang as an era of time, lasting hundreds of thousands ...