"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

SPACE is a deadly place – and we're all ... It's a fair game. A nearby gamma-ray burst could kill us all. And they can move at close to the speed of light, so oblivion would strike very quickly.

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous ... both stars collide in the vast space between them, becoming entangled ...

(What's more, to detect it you have to be facing the direction of the "funnel" of energy radiated into space by the blast.) Because these gamma-ray bursts often happen many billions of light-years ...

Scientists warn that a gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the most powerful explosions in the universe—could severely damage Earth’s atmosphere, disrupting weather patterns, the ozone layer, and ...

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For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth. The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a ...

This artist's impression illustrates the merger of two neutron stars, which produces the remarkably brief (1- to 2-second) yet intensely powerful event known as a short gamma-ray burst.

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous ... U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory/W. M. Keck Observatory The ...