The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

The reason why dinoflagellates give off bright flashes of light is not clearly understood by scientists, but it is probably the organism’s way of defending itself. When a predator swimming close by ...

AT2023vto was first observed on September 9 by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which initially identified the bright flash of light as a Type II supernova. However, further analysis by ...

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes ... repeating flashes occur in specific types of galaxies, Eftekhari said. The new research sheds more light on what causes fast ...