From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

A small satellite developed by NASA is nearly ready to begin tracking one of the universe's most powerful and mysterious ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

A new device that blasts targeted gamma radiation at brain tumours without needing an incision expands the ability to do ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

"A lot of the work that's currently being done in this field is looking at alternatives to lead for gamma protection," said Terry Thiem.

There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”.

On 2 July 2025, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB 250702B) of a record seven hours in ...

The second International Conference on the on Physics of the Two Infinities gathered nearly 200 participants in Tokyo.

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...