Einstein Probe caught an ordinary short gamma-ray burst followed by an extraordinary X-ray glow lasting nearly 10 minutes.

On July 4, 2025, astronomers watched a cosmic explosion do something it was not supposed to do. The event began with a ...

Picture a burst of energy so powerful that it can outshine entire regions of the cosmos, racing directly toward an object ...

Einstein Probe avoids that delay by monitoring a wide area of the sky at soft X-ray energies. On July 4, 2025, the ...

For decades, astronomers have identified collisions between two neutron stars through bursts of gamma rays that can disappear in less than two seconds. But some of these violent encounters may also ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that’s not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting. Telescopes on Earth and in space — ...

Short GRBs are thought to be produced when two compact stars, such as neutron stars, orbit each other, collide, and merge. These cataclysmic events ...

Artist's impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and HXMT ...

This image shows the host galaxy of the recently detected supernova SN 2026gzf. This supernova was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026. This archival image of the host galaxy from 9 ...

On March 21, 2026, China's Einstein Probe space telescope caught a seven-minute flash of soft X-rays from a galaxy 500 million light-years away — and in doing so, captured only the second confirmed ...