The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

"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 ...

Scientists have long known that thunderstorms can produce gamma rays, extremely high-energy light that is more often associated with astrophysical phenomena, such as exploding stars and matter ...

Gamma radiation transforms methane into glycine and various other complex molecules. A research team reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie that gamma radiation can transform methane into a diverse ...

China and France set off on a mighty explosion toward the universe when they launched the joint Sino-French SVOM mission. Their aim was to study Gamma-ray bursts that coincided with an event where ...

While scientists are still debating the excess, one research group has proposed that gamma-ray bursts can be used as a powerful probe to examine the surplus, which could also observe the formation ...

Researchers identified two main forms of gamma rays: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), which are brief but intense bursts ...

An international team of researchers has traced the source of mysterious ultrahigh-energy gamma rays to the heart of the ...

For that, you need something like this gamma-ray spectroscope. Dubbed the Pomelo by [mihai.cuciuc], the detector is a homebrew solid-state scintillation counter made from a thallium-doped cesium ...