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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The discovery fills in a missing link in scientists’ understanding of thundercloud radiation and the mechanisms that produce ...

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.

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 fact, this was one of the narrowest jets seen for a gamma ray burst so far, which gives us a hint as to why the afterglow appeared as bright as it did". One theory is that one of the ways ...

Thor and the Hulk may be more closely related than we thought. Thunderstorms are known to produce gamma rays in the ...