Southern California authorities are searching for an arsonist who set himself on fire while trying to blow up a car. The ...

The burst's host galaxy is more than halfway across the observable universe and up to 100 times fainter than ... making it at least 46 billion light-years from Earth. This incredible distance ...

"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 ...