Picture taking the single most energetic explosion the universe produces and hurling it directly at one of the most powerful ...

Dark matter is known to make up roughly 85% of all mass in the universe, as evidenced by the way galaxies spin and how galaxy ...

A collapsing star drives a shock wave out through its own body. The wave reaches the surface and breaks through, dumping ...

Gamma rays are among the most powerful types of radiation in nature and a key area of interest in the search for dark matter, especially for scientists who support the WIMP theory. As per their name, ...

Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why certain atomic nuclei unexpectedly produce large numbers of low-energy gamma ...

Scientists have learned that thunderstorms create antimatter. Electrons collide with particles to make gamma rays, which then ...

The Swift rescue mission was always risky. NASA awarded Katalyst a $30 million contract less than a year ago to build and ...

Astronomers have performed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of a gamma-ray loud blazar known as TXS 2013+370. The observations, posted November 19 on the arXiv preprint server, ...

Chinese scientists detected a sharp gamma-ray signal in Fermi Telescope data, potentially offering the clearest support for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical ...