"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

SPACE is a deadly place – and we’re all living at its mercy on a little blue rock. Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t be crashing into us after all, but that’s not ...

NASA’s BurstCube satellite, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, has successfully detected its first gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the ...

Brave New World is about to hit cinemas, bringing with it the gamma-ray-powered Red Hulk. Here's what you need to know about that high-energy radiation.

So, raise a glass to the achievements of Integral and its team as instrument operations conclude. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray ...

BurstCube may be small, but it has a big mission. NASA scientists will use the satellite to identify, pinpoint, and analyze short gamma-ray bursts, which are brief and strong flashes of light.

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic explosions ... The key to determining what caused EP240408A may lie with one of the aforementioned NASA projects. "NICER's ability to steer to pretty ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

This image shows the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared light, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The image reveals the details of the galactic core, where a supermassive black hole ...

Research has found black holes which 'nibble' on stars are contributing more than previously thought to the bombardment of ...

"This particular object radiates only faintly in the energy region where gamma rays have an energy of a few hundred million electron volts," explains Gaidos. "This is the region where the detector on ...