It's the most energetic light source in the Universe against a massive gravitational monster. Could this cosmic showdown ...

While scientists are still debating the excess, one research group has proposed that gamma-ray bursts can be used as a powerful probe to examine the surplus, which could also observe the formation ...

"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 ...

"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 version of ...

One of the gamma-ray bursts has been confirmed by the European ... to detect bursts of high energy radiation emitted from the biggest, most destructive events in the universe such as the formation ...

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Mountain high The cosmic-ray observatory on Armenia’s Mount Aragats. (Courtesy: Vahram Mekhitarian/CC BY-SA 4.0) Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on ...

Researchers had observed two forms of thunderstorm gamma-ray emissions: relatively long-lived “glows” lasting hundreds of seconds, as well as intense, microsecond-scale bursts known as ...

An illustration of NASAs research plane ER-2 flying over thunderstorms. Credit: University of Bergen / Mount Visual (CC BY 4.0) Recent findings indicate that gamma-ray emissions from thunderstorms are ...

NASA's Wind Spacecraft has been studying solar wind for 30 years, investigating basic plasma processes in the solar wind ...

An observatory high in the mountains of Mexico has recorded repeated emission of some of the highest-energy gamma rays ever recorded from a single point close to the galactic center. The nature of ...