"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 version of ...

China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), a major scientific infrastructure, has released groundbreaking results from its "Mini Survey of the Milky Way" program. With unprecedented ...

Gamma-ray astronomy is a research area focused on the observation, analysis, and interpretation of the universe in the gamma-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically above ~100 keV. It ...

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The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) will study gamma-ray emissions in the galaxy using a spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Credit: UC Berkeley WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Astronomers have determined what caused the brightest cosmic explosion ...

Integral’s latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers ...

A flash of high-energy light from deep space has forced astronomers to rethink what they thought they knew about the most violent explosions in the universe. The event, a strange gamma-ray burst that ...

Using various telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed multi-wavelength observations of a recently ...

Astronomy Astronomers map one of the largest structures in the universe, hidden behind the Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' Cosmology Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 million galaxies, from ...

Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR J2032+4127. Results of the new observations, published February 3 on the arXiv ...