Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma ... is lead author on a paper in The Astrophysical Journal that promises to shed light on the behavior of these mysterious cosmic powerhouses ...

Before CTAO, VERITAS was the world's most sensitive very-high-energy-gamma-ray observatory that could detect brief flashes of the blue "Cherenkov" light, created as the gamma rays hit the Earth's ...

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

During the time it takes for its wave to go through one cycle, a gamma-ray wave traveling at the speed of light will travel only the width of a proton, a tiny particle found within the nucleus of ...

"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 ...

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

The same result is obtained when studying the pulse-height from the gamma-rays emitted by different substances. There is, in this case, a continuous distribution of pulses from zero to a certain ...

For that, you need something like this gamma-ray spectroscope ... to protect the hygroscopic crystal from both humidity and light. There’s also a temperature sensor on the detector board ...

Researchers at University of Galway have created a new approach to finding peat soil, giving insight to where carbon is ...