Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chornobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

Their relatives might have been on opposite sides of near-nuclear war, but the US and Soviet leader’s descendants have teamed up for an intimate BBC podcast. They talk humanity, hate – and why Trump i ...

Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated. The GRB was "unlike anything ever witnessed before," according to the ...

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, ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result. When you purchase ...

When a distant galaxy briefly outshines everything around it in high-energy light, astronomers usually know which playbook to reach for. Gamma-ray bursts tend to fall into familiar categories, either ...

The early 1970s were a turbulent time in America — marked by soaring inflation, an oil crisis and a sharp drop in stock prices that left investors scrambling for safe havens. And, according to ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline. By Alexa Robles-Gil Last week, the world’s leading wildlife trade agreement ...

The suspect was arrested a day before National Guard members were shot in DC. Homeland Security said investigators arrested an Afghan national who allegedly made a social media post about "building a ...

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