Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Galactic Center Excess, shines in high-energy gamma rays that can’t be explained by ordinary astrophysical processes. Its ...

Dark matter is a riddle: Stars can feel it, but we can’t see it. It makes up 80% of the matter in the universe, yet we can only guess at what it actually is. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA ...

Scientists have been all aflutter since several space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) in October 2022—a burst so energetic that astronomers nicknamed it the BOAT (Brightest ...

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This study is led by Prof. Shaolin Xiong (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Jirong Mao (Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Shuang-Nan ...

A research team led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made a breakthrough discovery. They identified a gamma-ray spectrum line with an energy of up to 37 ...

Astronomers have finally decoded the origin of a powerful seven hour signal from deep space, a blast so persistent that it ...

NASA’s newest observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments ...

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Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to create compact gamma-ray sources that are simultaneously brighter, sharper, ...