Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

TRONDHEIM, Norway — Particles racing through space at nearly the speed of light pack energy millions of times greater than anything we can create on Earth. For decades, these cosmic bullets have ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

'We found a much stronger signal, and in a different part of the sky, than the one we were looking for.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A composite image shows a photograph of the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory in Mexico observing particles, whose paths are shown as red lines, generated by high-energy gamma rays from the ...

Blazars are powered by immensely active supermassive black holes that fire beams of particles into space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye, this gamma-ray “halo” would appear about 40 ...

Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles. An array of telescopes in Namibia has pinpointed the origin of ...

"You know we haven't done enough research into the effects of cosmic rays!" Ben Grimm, Fantastic Four #1, 1961 Ben may have been right way back when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him and the rest of ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Sometimes, the best place to hide a secret is in broad daylight. Just ask the sun. “The sun is more surprising than we knew,” said Mehr Un Nisa, a postdoctoral research associate ...