The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Inexpensive, highly accurate gamma radiation dosimeter technologies developed at Purdue University’s College of Engineering could lower the costs of medical device sterilization ...
NASA is preparing an in-orbit demonstration of its AstroPix gamma-ray sensor, a pixel-based detector that could support ...
A new generation of gamma-ray detector known as AstroPix will fly aboard the agency’s Fly Foundational Robots mission, scheduled for launch in late 2027. While the technology demonstration may appear ...
Currently there exist two explanations behind the mysterious signals. The study strengthened one.
After emitting an alpha or beta particle, the nucleus will often still be ‘excited’ and will need to lose energy. It does this by emitting a high energy electromagnetic wave called a gamma ray. Gamma ...
The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of ...
NASA sent a retired Cold War spy plane on a storm-chasing mission, and it discovered that big thunderstorms are very radioactive. Large thunderstorms produce so much gamma radiation that the clouds ...