There have been a good number of gamma-ray bursts seen over the years, and they are all some of the brightest things in the sky. This one, however, is an estimated 7seventy times brighter than ...

“It was probably the brightest gamma-ray burst we have ever detected,” said Mirko Piersanti, University of L’Aquila, Italy, and lead author of the paper, in a press release. The burst of ...

Most tropical lightning storms are akin to massive pots of boiling water - but emitting bursts of gamma radiation instead of ...

Thunderstorms create a lot of wind, rain, and lightning, but many people aren’t necessarily aware of another common byproduct ...

Out of 10 thunderstorms the aircraft flew over, 9 of them were alight with gamma rays, suggesting that large thunderstorms ...

There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays.

Satellites captured images of how the gamma blast lit up dust rings in space Scientists have revealed how Nasa satellites detected the brightest gamma ray explosion in space. The gamma-ray burst ...

The explosion earned the nickname BOAT for "Brightest of All Time." Astronomers have since been trying to work out what could have made the gamma-ray burst so bright, and may finally have an answer.

In two new papers published in Nature, researchers have unveiled that gamma radiation in thunderstorms is far more prevalent ...

These so-called gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are so energetic that ... Thus, when a GRB erupts, it briefly becomes the brightest source of electromagnetic radiation in the observable universe.

In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT—the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA's ...