An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” New research ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma ... is lead author on a paper in The Astrophysical Journal that promises to shed light on the behavior of these mysterious cosmic powerhouses ...

Before CTAO, VERITAS was the world's most sensitive very-high-energy-gamma-ray observatory that could detect brief flashes of the blue "Cherenkov" light, created as the gamma rays hit the Earth's ...

ESA’s Integral observed space for 22 years, uncovering gamma-ray bursts, black holes, and gravitational waves.

During the time it takes for its wave to go through one cycle, a gamma-ray wave traveling at the speed of light will travel only the width of a proton, a tiny particle found within the nucleus of ...

"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 ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory.

and very high-energy gamma rays carry with them energies of trillions of electron volts, a level that is hundreds of billions of times greater than visible light. Scientists presume that the energy ...

“Peat soils have a unique ability to block this type of naturally occurring radiation, drastically reducing the number of ...