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

An international team of scientists has just demonstrated, for the first time, a stream of particles escaping from a young, massive star cluster in our galaxy by combining data from NASA's ...

Astronomers spend careers watching stars collapse and explode, but an eruption spotted in July pushed beyond anything seen ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

A tremendous cosmic explosion 2.4 billion light years away temporarily changed the electric field in Earth’s ionosphere (the electrically-charged upper layer of our atmosphere that helps shield life ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope discovered a very unusual radiation blast from a dying star back on August 26, 2020. The involved group of astronomers, including space experts from India, ...

Hiding within the huge catalog of newly found pulsars are several "spider pulsars," or neutron stars that devour their companion stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

More and more Hulks are showing up in the MCU and now everyone on Earth may get their own gamma-radiation superpowers. According to a news release from NASA, the largest gamma-ray burst ever detected ...

New findings indicate that intense and mysterious bursts of radiation originate from neutron star mergers that occurred in the early universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Thor and the Hulk may be more closely related than we thought. Thunderstorms are known to produce gamma rays in the atmosphere, but a new study has found that not only do they happen way more often ...

Depending on the circumstances you find yourself in, a Geiger counter can be a tremendously useful tool. With just a click or a chirp, it can tell you if any invisible threats lurk. But a Geiger ...