A new chapter in X-ray history has been written over hundreds of miles above our planet. A medical X-ray of a human hand has been taken successfully in space for the first time. The remarkable feat ...

Independence Day is just one of many holidays in which Americans launch fireworks late into the night. Some states forbid people from launching their own fireworks, but that doesn’t stop many who have ...

In a Halloween-worthy cosmic revelation, NASA's "spooktacular" Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has ventured into the eerie expanse of MSH 15-52, a celestial structure reminiscent of a ...

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Hong Kong/S. Zhang et al.; Radio: ATNF/CSIRO/ATCA; H-alpha: UK STFC/Royal Observatory Edinburgh; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers suffered a brutal, 20-3 loss to the Detroit Lions, who look very legit after their hot start to the season. After they rallied towards the end of last season, the question of ...

Captured through the powerful lens of X-ray telescopes, the ethereal expanse of a pulsar wind nebula is revealed in unprecedented detail. Reading time 2 minutes Move over, Pillars of Creation—there’s ...

Is it Halloween in outer space? NASA has released X-ray images of a dead collapsed star that looks eerily like the bones of a "ghostly cosmic hand." The spooky images, released just before Halloween ...