Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...

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

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars." ...

but astronomers have recently discovered violent events in the universe that make the Sun look dim by comparison. These brief outpourings of energy are called gamma ray bursts. They are short in ...

A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 "pinwheel star" holds more mystery but is even less likely to be the ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

The European Commission recently established a planned gamma-ray observatory as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, or ERIC, which will expedite the construction of the telescope and ...

"Over the last decade, people have discovered that these high-energy gamma rays are present in many, many types of very energetic astronomical phenomenon, but we don't know much about where they ...

Decades of W.M. Keck Observatory research on the famed Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” system has taken a new turn, revealing more mystery but reducing concerns about its potential as the “Death Star.” ...

A stunning new discovery has revealed a massive spiral galaxy, located nearly 1 billion light-years away, that is doing ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.