An international research collaboration between the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the ...

A faint glow of gamma rays hangs over the center of the Milky Way, stretching across thousands of light-years and refusing to ...

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe, releasing more energy in just a few ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

A new generation of gamma-ray detector known as AstroPix will fly aboard the agency’s Fly Foundational Robots mission, ...

Machine learning algorithms have increasingly become integral to gamma-ray spectroscopy, enabling automated feature extraction, classification and quantitative analysis from complex spectral data.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

Space presents ongoing challenges for satellites, even with significant technological advancements over the last thirty years. Unlike Earth, space lacks natural protection, exposing satellites to a ...

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...