New research led by the University of Osaka reports the multi-sensor detection of an intense gamma-ray flash that occurred ...

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some ...

The last moment a nuclear conflict could be “won” was in 1959, before ballistic missiles could freight a payload of gamma rays ... the horror sketch of a potential future — melted eyeballs ...

Nuclear reactors aside, nothing on earth had been thought capable of generating gamma rays Paris: Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies ...

A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and flickering in gamma rays, high-energy light invisible to the eye. Ten flights with the plane ...

One of the papers describes the frequent emission of long-duration gamma-ray glows across sweeping parts of the atmosphere during tropical thunderstorms. The other paper goes into detail about the ...

To create the ultimate laser, a number of research teams are pursuing technology that could maintain coherent gamma rays, the most energetic form of light in our universe. If we could produce ...

But surprisingly, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light those particles should produce. A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an ...

When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back on Earth can detect them. Studying these pulses, which can also come ...

Those waves traversed the cosmos and finally reached Earth last year. This gamma-ray burst, researchers said on Tuesday, caused a significant disturbance in Earth's ionosphere, a layer of the ...

Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead star called a pulsar. The energy of these gamma rays clocked in at 20 tera ...