Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly ...
Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter – matter’s arch nemesis – left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma ...
Two neutron stars begin to merge in this artist’s concept, blasting jets of high-speed particles. Collision events like this one create short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...
COSI is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2027. The wide-field gamma-ray telescope is designed to survey the entire sky at 0.2-5 MeV. It will provide imaging, ...