Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

High above Earth, in the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau, a giant observatory ...

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected PeV (1015 eV) gamma-ray emission from a pulsar wind ...

A dark matter signal that appears in one place but not another might look like a contradiction. This new study argues it may ...

An unprecedented neutrino detection in the Mediterranean has pushed the boundaries of high-energy astrophysics, raising new ...

On this day, April 27, 1961, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Explorer 11 satellite into ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) rank among the most powerful explosions in the universe, releasing immense energy in intense flashes ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in the late 1960s. You might be wondering ...

Dark matter may consist of two particles, explaining why only the Milky Way shows a strange gamma-ray signal while smaller galaxies do not.

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still aren’t convinced. Reading time 4 minutes Astronomers have spent nearly a century ...

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 ...