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

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on ...

While the theories piled up, the science went almost nowhere. That changed with the 1991 launch of NASA s Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. During Compton s nine-year lifetime, its BATSE instrument ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...