Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, transient cosmic events, typically originating from massive stellar collapses or mergers of compact objects, which serve as crucial probes for understanding the ...

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

"They allow us to see back to the earliest times that stars existed." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists may be a step ...

By tracing solar flare gamma rays, scientists gain new insight into particle behavior that shapes space weather forecasts.

A tremendous cosmic explosion 2.4 billion light years away temporarily changed the electric field in Earth’s ionosphere (the electrically-charged upper layer of our atmosphere that helps shield life ...

Distinguishing between different types of gamma-ray bursts just got a lot more complicated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

The Sun’s most violent flares are turning out to be even more extreme than I, or many solar physicists, had imagined. By ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray pulsars. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, ...

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

An artist's rendering of gamma-ray glows observed during the research, with gamma rays colored purple for emphasis NASA / ALOFT mission Two hundred and seventy-two years after that June afternoon when ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not behave like a quick cosmic flash. Instead, it burned across the sky for more than seven hours, forcing astronomers to rethink what powers the universe ...