"We're just really in awe of this event and feeling very lucky to be able to study it." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. All eyes ...

A cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours: this is the unusual spectacle recently observed by astronomers. Named GRB 250702B, this gamma-ray burst shattered previous duration records.

This study is led by Prof. Shaolin Xiong (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Jirong Mao (Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Shuang-Nan ...

A glowing blob known as "the cocoon" has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2012. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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

Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe presents. We feel safe from the dangers of the vacuum of space, where radiation sizzles and ...

The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a novel type of gamma-ray telescope designed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). (Photo by Amy Oliver, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Two violent explosions in galaxies billions of light-years away recently produced the brightest light in the universe. Scientists caught it in ...

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and ...

Roland Crocker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the centre of our ...