Astronomers had already classified some celestial objects that emitted low-energy X-rays as “supersoft.” The new objects emit just the lowest-energy slice of supersoft X-rays, so the researchers call ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object – compact binary systems that ...

Proteins are high-performance molecular machines that carry out nearly every biochemical function inside living cells. To ...

To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen ...

ZEISS today introduced ZEISS VersaXRM 5 Insight, a hybrid 3D X-ray microscope designed to help researchers and engineers ...

A mounted head of an animal that was bought at auction has been officially verified as an extinct Tasmanian Tiger specimen. James Cranfield, a natural history collector from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, spent ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered 84 mysterious ‘hypersoft’ X-ray sources across six galaxies. Their unusual radiation is puzzling astronomers.

The discovery of X-rays in 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen marked a major advance in science and medicine, making it possible for physicians to see inside the human body for the first ...