In physics terms, radiation is simply energy on the move, carried by waves like sunlight or particles like those released by ...

Other than inside nuclear reactors, nothing on our planet had been thought capable of generating gamma rays. Since then, two different types of gamma rays have been observed inside thunderstorms ...

Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...

Thunderstorms produce gamma rays when electrons get accelerated in strong electric fields that build up inside the clouds (SN: 3/15/19). These electrons produce more electrons, and so on.

Researchers had observed two forms of thunderstorm gamma-ray emissions: relatively long-lived “glows” lasting hundreds of seconds, as well as intense, microsecond-scale bursts known as ...

A World-Changing Gamma Ray Laser Is on the Horizon. It Could One Day Unlock Interstellar Travel Researchers are finally getting close to solving “one of the most important problems in physics.” ...

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

Physicist Joseph Dwyer at the University of New Hampshire, who was not involved in the Armenian study says, “When you think of gamma rays, you usually think of black holes or solar flares. You don’t ...

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Researchers at the University of ...