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

Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have uncovered the elusive source of intense gamma rays unleashed during solar flares. These ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe. They emit most of their energy in gamma rays, light which is much more energetic than the visible light we can see with our eyes. In ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Scientists have detected a dramatic excess of gamma rays pouring out from the Sun, which represent the highest-energy light emissions ever detected from Earth’s star. “The sun is more surprising than ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

A long-time question in astrophysics appears to finally be answered, thanks to a collection of large, high-tech water tanks on a mountainside in Mexico. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) data ...

Scientists have pinned down the energy produced by an unusually bright gamma-ray burst detected in 2022, and wow is it a whopper. Reading time 2 minutes The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed ...

Earlier this year, it was reported that Earth was hit by the brightest gamma-ray bursts seen since the dawn of civilization. Now, a team of astronomers has assigned a value to the energy contained in ...

Although our galaxy's supermassive black hole is relatively placid, the center of the Milky Way wherein it resides is not a placid place. Its extreme location is rife with what can best be described ...