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

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

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"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 ...

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.

along with a gamma-ray burst from the very early universe. One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues immediately ...

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

Magnetars are a class of neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. These incredibly dense objects are central in the landscape of extreme phenomena such as hypernovae, fast ...

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 ...

The Science White Paper of the Einstein Probe (EP) mission, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and jointly ...

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 ...