In a groundbreaking development, NASA researchers, using advanced airborne instruments, have detected a new form of gamma-ray emission within storm clouds.These newly discovered emissions, termed ...

NASA’s BurstCube satellite, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, has successfully detected its first gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the most energetic explosions in the universe. The satellite, which was ...

Experts accidentally detected gamma rays in thunderstorms in the 1990s, when NASA satellites designed to study supernovas and other high-energy cosmic bodies recorded some of their intended ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a small gamma-ray astronomy mission on a Falcon 9 in 2027. NASA announced July 2 that it awarded a contract to SpaceX to launch the Compton ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

NASA awarded SpaceX a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $69 million to launch the COSI mission. This is about a 37 percent increase in the price NASA paid SpaceX in a 2019 contract for launch of ...

Via NASA plane, scientists find new gamma-ray emission in storm clouds. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-07893-0. Keywords ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

The mission of the Slovak spacecraft GRBAlpha has officially come to an end. Launched into orbit in March 2021, the ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...