The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

N ASA’s BurstCube satellite, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, has successfully detected its first gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the ...

The cosmic pinwheel that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once ...

Early on September 22, 1979, satellites picked up an exceedingly bright double flash in the South Atlantic that has never ...

A cubesat, a type of small satellite in the shape of a cube with 10-centimetre-long edges, GRBAlpha was designed as ...

Gamma rays are much shorter in wavelength than visible ... True to its name, the Swift satellite instantly dispatches e-mail alerts to amateur and professional astronomers around the world.

It's not easy to imagine how high the frequency of a high-energy gamma ray is. During the time it takes for its wave to go through one cycle, a gamma-ray wave traveling at the speed of light will ...

The H.E.R.M.E.S. Constellation of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).  The High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites - ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...

H.E.R.M.E.S. Pathfinder (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) satellite constellation was launched; the satellites reached orbit thanks to the Falcon 9 launcher of Space X's Transporter ...

Since its launch on Jan 9 last year, the satellite has detected 60 confirmed transient celestial bodies, including stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, various types of black holes, gamma-ray ...