Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical ...

Shutterstock Dark matter is a difficult subject because, on the one hand, we don’t really know if it even exists at all. On ...

Explosions typically connected to black holes and dying stars may happen right in our planet's atmosphere, too. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...