A faint glow of gamma rays hangs over the center of the Milky Way, stretching across thousands of light-years and refusing to ...

A multi-sensor detection of an intense gamma-ray flash, which occurs when two lightning leaders collided, has been observed. Observations across a wide radiation spectrum enabled precise measurement ...

What would happen if you took the most energetic explosion in the Universe and sent it straight into one of the most powerful ...

Cosmic X-ray flashes are a phenomenon when the night sky seems calm to the naked eye but in the electromagnetic spectrum. The ...

Gamma-ray bursters as a research area focuses on the astrophysical study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), extremely energetic transient events observed in gamma-ray wavelengths. This field investigates the ...

Gamma-ray burst GRB 260623A was detected by NASA’s Fermi telescope morning at 12:56 UTC Tuesday, triggering a global ...

An X8.2 class solar flare flashes in the edge of the Sun on Sept. 10, 2017. This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 304 angstrom ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most violent eruptions. In findings published in Nature Astronomy, scientists ...