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

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

SVOM had already detected 78 gamma-ray bursts and around ten scientific publications are in preparation. "Gamma-ray bursts ...

"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 ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy, an observation that is challenging how astronomers ...

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

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

A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.

and gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions since the Big Bang, the cause of which is still shrouded in mystery. While Space.com can't make you as well-versed in gamma science as Bruce ...

We could pull a Bruce Willis in Armageddon, maybe. It's a fair game. A nearby gamma-ray burst could kill us all. And they can move at close to the speed of light, so oblivion would strike very ...