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

The strong currents of air in thunderstorms can cause air and water to shoot up and down very quickly. When this happens, ...

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

This image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 was part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined the power of natural "gravitational lenses" in space.  The ...

While on Titan, Dragonfly will utilize its rotorcraft design to fly around the methane-filled world and explore Titan’s chemistry and how life may have begun on Earth. Using a suite of four ...

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

Born of x-ray astronomy, a novel handheld gamma-optical camera stands at the nexus of medical and industrial imaging. By ...

Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, according to a new study.

The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in ...

A groundbreaking study led by Anirudh Patel suggests that magnetars—rare, highly magnetic neutron stars—played a key role in the formation of gold and other heavy elements in the universe. By ...

Thunderstorms are known to generate gamma rays, the highest energy radiation on Earth. But pinning the burst to a specific bolt is new.