Scientists have discovered that a new form of dark matter could simultaneously solve two long-standing mysteries at the heart ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

Gamma-ray bursts have revealed that the largest structure in the universe, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, is bigger ...

For that, you need something like this gamma-ray spectroscope ... Pomelo can detect energies from 50 keV all the way up to 3 MeV, and display them as graphs using linear or log scales.

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

If dark matter is creating positrons in the CMZ, those particles will eventually slow down and eventually annihilate with ...

Before this research, scientists didn't recognize that some nearby gamma-ray bursts are also part of ... that is large enough to fit over 94,000 Milky Way galaxies placed side by side along ...