Did you know that the world around us is filled with different types of light waves ? From the warm glow of the sun to audible radio waves and invisible gamma rays, electromagnetic waves (action ...

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 ...

(Courtesy: Vahram Mekhitarian/CC BY-SA 4.0) 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 ...

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 ...

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 almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

They have discovered that gamma rays, produced during the deuterium-tritium nuclear reaction, can serve as a precise and ...

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 ...

Armed with sensors to measure gamma rays, lightning flashes and microwave emissions, the team conducted 10 flights over storm clouds in the Caribbean and Central America, at an altitude of 20 km ...

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 ...