NASA Images Show Gamma Ray Bursts Across Milky Way

NASA researchers yesterday released images collected by a new telescope studying high-energy gamma rays. A combined image from 95 hours of the telescope's initial observations showed bursts of gamma rays glowing across the plane of the Milky Way...

Telescope puts never-seen objects in view

A new space telescope, launched less than three months ago and now flying in orbit 350 miles above the Earth, is detecting powerful bursts of mysterious energy from stars and galaxies far beyond the Milky Way, an international team headed by a Stanford...