And it did so right in the middle of an odd sort of telescope that was partway through construction. In a paper published in ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday.

TAMPA, Fla. — It’s Opening Day and the Tampa Bay Rays are set to begin a season unlike any other in the team’s 28 years of existence. Chased away from Tropicana Field by Hurricane Milton’s ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

StarBurst, a wide-field gamma ray observatory, arrived at March 4 for environmental testing and final instrument integration.

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

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