A Japanese team has conducted a pioneering study on terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). These events, although brief, ...

This study uncovers terrestrial gamma-ray flashes produced by lightning, offering new insights into Earth's powerful ...

This radiation received its name — gamma-rays — simply because gamma is the third letter in the Greek alphabet after alpha and beta. Unbeknownst to Villard and his cohorts in the early 1900s ...

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a ...

Japanese researchers captured rare gamma-ray flash from lightning collision using advanced multi-sensor detection system.

Scientists were trying to unravel the mystery of gamma ray bursts detected during lightning storms when they witnessed ...

O'Connor, who specializes in the study of massive cosmic explosions, explained that gamma-ray radiation associated with GRBs is produced by a collimated jet of material moving at nearly the speed ...

This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of the most energetic radiation on Earth. Researchers have for years linked the production of gamma rays to the acceleration ...

Graphic: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Goldstein (USRA) In the standard model of gamma-ray burst afterglows, “afterglow radiation originates from the collision of the rapidly ...

On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and sending astronomers on a chase to ...

Neutron stars are the incredibly dense cores of dead stars, and their collisions can be explosive and send out gamma rays and other radiation, followed by gravitational waves. “If this had to ...