There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...

Looking towards the central region of the Milky Way, there is an unexpected surplus in the most powerful light that exists: ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the universe, can generate even more energetic light beams than astronomers previously realized, according to a set of new studies. The ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. And when these “supermassive” black holes start to ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...