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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 ...

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Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...

Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite is the first space telescope funded by the Australian Space Agency to carry a scientific ...

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"At $20 million a kilogram, you can put together a good business just going after He-3 for quantum computing over the next ...

The explosion (circled in red) was marked by repeated gamma-ray bursts over the course of a day. | Credit: ESO/A. Levan, A.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to look for an ...