Humanity receives mysterious 10-second signal from unknown source in deep space

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...
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Astronomer Answers Cosmos Questions

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Mysterious ‘bursts’ in space have astronomers scrambling to figure out its origin: ‘Very rare and exciting’

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion ...

Radio telescopes uncover 'invisible' gas around record-shattering cosmic explosion

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.
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The Sun’s most violent flares reveal a hidden new gamma-ray source

The Sun’s most violent flares are turning out to be even more extreme than I, or many solar physicists, had imagined. By ...
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NASA’s Pandora space telescope enters orbit after SpaceX launch to begin alien atmospheres study like never before

The search for habitable worlds beyond the solar system now faces a more technical obstacle than distance: uncertainty in the ...

X-ray spectra provide sharpest image to date of a rapidly spinning black hole

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

Plasma “Fireballs” at CERN May Explain the Universe’s Missing Light

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...