Scientists now believe that a burst of life known as a gamma ray may have helped play a vital role in the origins of life on Earth. Further, the finding may actually provide some clues as to how the ...

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe ...

Astronomers have caught a cosmic explosion doing something it was never supposed to do, firing off three powerful gamma-ray ...

The discovery represents the first evidence that low-mass T.Tauri stars, which are less than 10 million years old, can emit gamma radiation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...