The emission of X-rays is usually the domain of the energetic events of the universe: hot stars, supermassive black holes, and the like. However, since 1996, with Comet Hyakutake, we have learned that ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just done something no visitor from another star system has ever been caught doing: it lit up in X-rays. As its elongated orbit carries it through the inner solar ...

An inset image by XRISM’s Xtend instrument, showing a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image: Inset, JAXA/NASA/XRISM Xtend; background, C. Smith, S. Points, the MCELS Team and ...

Newly released images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope take viewers on a road trip through the universe, offering spectacular sights of various cosmic attractions. When you purchase through links ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday. New X-ray images could shed light on its composition.

Astronomers have mapped out half the universe in X-ray light, using a space telescope called eROSITA. The new map, which contains almost a million X-ray sources, is the basis of dozens of new ...

NORTHBROOK, Ill. (WLS) -- The whole world was watching last Friday, as a first-of-its-kind space mission splashed down to Earth. SpaceX's Fram2 flew over Earth's North and South poles, doing crucial ...

Sandia scientists developed a new type of X-ray that uses patterned multi-metal targets to create colorized, high-resolution images. The technology promises sharper scans, better material detection, ...