Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

Researchers have captured the first real-time observation of a gamma-ray flash linked to a lightning strike, shedding light on the extreme energy processes in Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

After almost three decades in music, we look back at some songs that define the veteran rock band Queens of the Stone Age's ...

On Aug. 9, 1969, the 8-months-pregnant Tate and her friends — Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski — were at her Benedict Canyon house while her husband, director Roman Polanski, was ...

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

Yet the burst had us intrigued. For one thing, this burst was fast. The fastest known fast radio burst lasted about 10 ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

The new telescope design will allow gamma ray astronomers to use more modern camera sensors. Current gamma ray telescope arrays are using much of the same technology used in the 1960s by his ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in Australia has found that a mysterious fast ...

The FBI and DHS issued a warning about an "elevated threat" to Jewish and Israeli communities across the U.S. during the Israel-Hamas conflict, citing recent violent incidents in Colorado and D.C.