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

Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have uncovered the elusive source of intense gamma rays unleashed during solar flares. These high-energy radiation signals have long puzzled scientists, but the ...

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.

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bright band of diffuse gamma ray glow along the map's center, which marks the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy, is seen in ...

A huge surge of gamma-ray energy from space caused electric currents to flow through the surface of the Earth on October 9, scientists have said. This gamma-ray burst, named GRB221009A, is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...