We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

View a video of gamma ray bursts from Seeing in the Dark Gamma rays belong to the same family as light, x-rays, and the radio waves that travel between a radio station and your car radio.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

“Peat soils have a unique ability to block this type of naturally occurring radiation, drastically reducing the number of ...