Space & Spaceflight Scientists Just Caught Lightning Firing Off a Gamma-Ray Blast The split-second spark may explain how storms become radioactive—and how lightning really begins.

To get a clearer view, in 2023 a team led by Nikolai Østgaard and Martino Marisaldi, both atmospheric physicists at the University of Bergen in Norway, monitored the gamma-ray emissions of large ...

The Einstein Probe has the Wide X-Ray Telescope, which is advantageous for observing high-z gamma ray bursts; it recently observed a gamma-ray burst at a z value of 4.859.

A World-Changing Gamma Ray Laser Is on the Horizon. It Could One Day Unlock Interstellar Travel Researchers are finally getting close to solving “one of the most important problems in physics.” ...

Gamma-ray bursts allow astronomers to learn about the history of the universe, including how the birth rate and the mass of the stars change over time. Types of gamma-ray bursts ...

Astronomers have determined what caused the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded. Lasting a matter of minutes, the gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, was observed by astronomers in October ...

Although astronomers have detected gamma ray bursts since the 1960s, they need to know more about their structure to determine their origins, and that’s where you come in. NASA is calling on ...

New research helps resolve the mystery surrounding strange long gamma-ray bursts, suggesting these blasts of high-energy radiation emerge from collisions of neutron stars that birth black holes.

The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars. The Astrophysical Journal, 2023; 958 (2): 191 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acee67 ...

“However, after analyzing the data from CSES as well as ESA’s Integral space telescope, we changed our opinion. Now, we think it is possible that a gamma-ray burst can produce an effect in the ...

Dubbed the "brightest of all time," or the BOAT, a gamma-ray burst detected in 2022 continues to astound astronomers, revealing severe effects in Earth's atmosphere.