Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, ...

An analysis by the nonprofit science advocacy group The Planetary Society has identified 54 NASA missions that may be ...

Discover 25 mysterious space events scientists are tracking right now. From waking black holes to strange signals, explore ...

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a radio wave, for example, behaving like a particle. The main evidence for a ...

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a ...

Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated. The GRB was "unlike anything ever witnessed before," according to the ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It emits X-rays of an intensity and temperature incompatible with what one ...

IT has long been known that some of the radio-elements emit a penetrating type of X-rays known as the gamma rays. It is clear that these radiations arising from the nucleus of the radioactive atom ...

A METHOD has been devised for designing an X-ray spectrometer which requires no movement of the grating or the electronic counter. Spectrometers widely used in the past have contained a fixed light ...