Lighthouse of the Skies ... but the Institution did make room eventually for Adams’ celestial lighthouse. In 1890, ... from long radio waves to ultra-short gamma rays.

Researchers have detected pulses of gamma rays with energies exceeding 100 billion electron-volts coming from the Crab Nebula. These are a million times more energetic than medical X-rays and 100 ...

The $700 million Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, on Wednesday at 1205 EDT (1605 GMT). After a 75-minute flight ...

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Researchers at the University of ...

Astronomers on Queensland's Gold Coast hope to become the first stargazers to capture a gamma ray burst on camera. Gamma rays are powerful bursts of energy, which erupt from exploding stars. Andre ...