Among its other notable achievements and puzzles, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a larger number of bright ...

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

Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on how thunderstorms can create flashes ...

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

In the 1990s, NASA’s satellites, designed to detect gamma rays from far-off space explosions, made a surprising discovery: ...

Most tropical lightning storms are akin to massive pots of boiling water - but emitting bursts of gamma radiation instead of steam, according to reports in Nature. Those bursts also occur more ...

The Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment observatory, the largest imaging Cherenkov telescope in Asia, has been inaugurated ...

The electrical effects of a thunderstorm are not confined just to high up in the atmosphere. Close to the ground, Earth's ...

India is again taking a giant leap in space science, and this time, it's by reaching for the stars. Nestled at a breathtaking ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of gamma-ray emission produced by storm clouds, shedding new light on ...

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 ...

Nuclear reactors aside, nothing on earth had been thought capable of generating gamma rays Paris: Big thunderstorms ...