Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s ...

Theoretically, if one of these gamma-ray bursts happened within 1,000 light-years of Earth, it could wipe out all life on our planet. Astronomers have cataloged a stunning treasure trove of over ...

Thunderclouds not only produce rain and lightning but also emit gamma rays, including newly discovered flickering gamma-ray ...

Using the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), an international team of astronomers have detected ...

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which used NASA’s ER-2 research plane to study gamma rays in tropical thunderstorms. University of Bergen space physicist Nikolai Østgaard and his colleagues published their findings in the jou ...

Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on how thunderstorms can create flashes of gamma rays by accelerating electrons. Further study of the phenomenon ...

A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and flickering in gamma rays, high-energy light invisible to the eye. Ten flights with the plane ...

Thunderstorms are far more radioactive than previously thought, routinely producing gamma rays—the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation typically associated with supernovas and other ...

Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday, upending what was previously thought -- and potentially pointing towards a clue ...

Researchers have known for several decades that thunderstorms can act as miniature particle accelerators that produce antimatter, gamma rays and other nuclear phenomena. But they did not know how ...