A team of international scientists has uncovered a surprising cosmic mystery, thanks to a galaxy nicknamed the Squid Galaxy ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new object in our Milky Way, which is emitting X-rays and radio waves at the same time.

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

Explosions typically connected to black holes and dying stars may happen right in our planet's atmosphere, too.

Abstract: In this work, we report the synthesis and inclusion of rationally designed organotin compounds in polystyrene matrices as a route towards plastic scintillators capable of gamma-ray ...

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

Lu Lu looks forward to the next two decades of neutrino astrophysics, exploring the remarkable detector concepts needed to ...

Scientists have found a neutrino that could come from a gamma-ray burst, an active black hole or a collision between a cosmic ...

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...