The gamma-ray burst occurred in the southern constellation Microscopium and was officially announced on August 29, 2024, ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has surveyed the sky for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe’s most luminous ...

From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical ...

"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 ...

O'Connor (UMD/GWU) and J. Rastinejad & W Fong (Northwestern Univ) NASA's Swift telescope captured the "afterflow" of the powerful gamma-ray burst about an hour after the agency detected the event.

The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

Nasa also maintains a list of asteroids that ... 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 ...

"This particular object radiates only faintly in the energy region where gamma rays have an energy of a few hundred million electron volts," explains Gaidos. "This is the region where the detector on ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the stunning image of Cartwheel Galaxy. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, ...

I worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA before coming to Michigan Tech. I am perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered ...