A normal part of thunderstorms, dark lightning is a burst of gamma rays, a form... read more
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Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a new kind of stellar blast called a kilonova,... read more
Nasa's Fermi has made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the Universe and used... read more
This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone... read more
Nasa's Kepler mission has discovered a planet - Kepler-16b - where two suns set over... read more
Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's centre.... read more
Orbiting a pulsar in the Milky Way's Serpens, or Snake, constellation, may be the most... read more
Cygnus X hosts many young stellar groupings. The combined outflows and ultraviolet radiation from the... read more