NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA explains. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
NASA astronomers recently spotted a burst of radiation that was quickly crowned the "BOAT": the brightest of all time. The source of the radiation, which NASA said "swept through the solar system" on ...
The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...
A new prototype telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory south of Tucson could soon be part of an ambitious plan to better study gamma rays, the high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation ...