Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers used a new astronomical software system called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory to discover a new Type Ib supernova and link it to...

Aug 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...

Jul 18, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research by Dr Edo Berger and his colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, all Earth’s gold likely came from...

Apr 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study conducted by German astronomers Dr Valeri Hambaryan and Dr Ralph Neuhauser, an intense blast of high-energy radiation that struck...

Jan 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Swift spacecraft has detected a gamma-ray burst, called GRB 111209A, which is one of the longest events of this kind ever observed. The duration...