View a video of gamma ray bursts from Seeing in the Dark Gamma rays belong to the same family as light, x-rays, and the radio waves that travel between a radio station and your car radio.

It's not easy to imagine how high the frequency of a high-energy gamma ray is. During the time it takes for its wave to go through one cycle, a gamma-ray wave traveling at the speed of light will ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star ...

High-energy particles, known as cosmic rays, provide a window into some of the most extreme environments in the universe.

Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With ...

MACE telescope in Ladakh is a cutting-edge gamma-ray observatory aiding in dark matter research and high-energy astrophysics.

A team of researchers has successfully demonstrated nonlinear Compton scattering (NCS) between an ultra-relativistic electron ...