Scientists hope to use a gamma ray telescope to observe a future supernova to help prove the existence of dark matter.

Supernova remnants, pulsars, and active galactic nuclei are known to emit charged particles and gamma rays with energy levels ...

International astronomers have observed an unusual supernova that is poor in metals, providing vital clues about the early ...

Researchers have documented a rare supernova, 2023ufx, the most metal-poor stellar explosion observed, located in a dwarf ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just ...

Using a decade’s worth of data from the H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia, they’ve observed a sharp kink in the energy spectrum ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA ...

When a star dies in a supernova, one possible outcome is for the remains to become a neutron star. Inside a neutron star, the ...

Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With ...

Scientists from the CNRS, a consortium of German universities, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik working at the ...

The most powerful cosmic-ray electrons and positrons ever detected slamming into Earth's atmosphere carry energies so high ...