Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

These brief outpourings of energy are called gamma ray bursts. They are short in duration, lasting from a fraction of a second to a few minutes, and they emit most of their energy as gamma rays.

26 issue of the journal Nature. In the past four years, the team of astronomers working at the Smithsonian's Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona has observed high-energy gamma-ray bursts ...

Among the most fascinating phenomena are gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. Recently, ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

StarBurst, a wide-field gamma ray observatory, arrived at March 4 for environmental testing and final instrument integration.

Their aim was to study Gamma-ray bursts that coincided with an event where toxic debris from a rocket reportedly fell over a populated area. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation ...

From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical ...

I am perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered microlensing phenomena, and papers showing, usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were ...

It's not easy to imagine how high the frequency of a high-energy gamma ray is. During the time it takes for its wave to go through one cycle, a gamma-ray wave traveling at the speed of light will ...

MACE will enable scientists to observe high-energy gamma rays that originate from some of the universe's most energetic phenomena, such as supernovae, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts.