Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

NJIT researchers have identified a class of high-energy particles responsible for the Sun’s mysterious and long-lasting gamma-ray bursts.

Astronomers have determined what caused the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded. Lasting a matter of minutes, the gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, was observed by astronomers in October 2022.

Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like - by observing neutrons ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first-ever 3D simulation of the formation of a black hole jet reveals why mysterious ...

Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to ...

Terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes (TGFs) are brief, intense bursts of high‐energy radiation emitted from thunderclouds, often coinciding with lightning discharges. These phenomena are now understood to ...

An artist’s impression of gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C, recently investigated by the Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the highest-energy ever ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Eye in the sky: NASA's Fermi gamma-ray telescope may have caught a glimpse of dark matter. (Courtesy: NASA) A comparison of data from gravitational lensing and gamma-ray observations has revealed that ...

In a breathless press release, NASA emphasized that their detectors all over the planet picked up on this, including NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and the ...