The Sun’s most violent flares are turning out to be even more extreme than I, or many solar physicists, had imagined. By ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes ...

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

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

NASA's StarBurst instrument outside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...

NASA’s StarBurst instrument is several steps closer to being ready for launch. The small satellite is now awaiting instrument ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or perhaps ...

Solar physicists fromNJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have uncovered the elusive source of intense ...