Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.

China’s Einstein Probe has detected an event suspected to be the first recorded instance of a black hole devouring a white dwarf.

Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR ...

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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 ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

The Einstein Probe has observed an intermediate mass black hole tearing up a white dwarf. This is the first time that the ...

Neil Gehrels, chief, Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, is principal investigator for the SWIFT gamma-ray burst MIDEX mission. The SWIFT Explorer is an astronomical ...

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy, Durham, U.K., August 11-15, 1986"--T.p. verso. "Sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO and the ...

NASA sent a retired Cold War spy plane on a storm-chasing mission, and it discovered that big thunderstorms are very radioactive. Large thunderstorms produce so much gamma radiation that the clouds ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Thunderstorms create a lot of wind, rain, and lightning, but many ...