An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang ...

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 ...

Decades of W.M. Keck Observatory research on the famed Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” system has taken a new turn, revealing more mystery but reducing concerns about its potential as the “Death Star.” ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have ... a team of researchers at the Keck Observatory in Hawai'i took a closer look at the system ...

A new study has shed light on the orbital alignment of the well-known Wolf-Rayet 104 (WR 104) system, long considered a potential threat due to its speculated gamma-ray burst (GRB) risk. Observations ...

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

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be ... of observations conducted at the Keck Observatory in Hawai'i, which measured the ...

New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...

A dazzling star system once feared as a potential “Death Star” has turned out to be much less threatening than scientists ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. The discovery was ...