One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...

More information: Thomas M. Gaudin et al, CXOU J005245.0-722844: Discovery of a Be Star / White Dwarf binary system in the SMC via a very fast, super-Eddington X-ray outburst event, arXiv (2024).

Watson and Crick's discovery didn't come out of the blue ... Wilkins and Franklin used X-ray diffraction as their main tool -- beaming X-rays through the molecule yielded a shadow picture of ...

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix ... Franklin moved to Paris where she perfected her skills in X-ray crystallography, which would become her ...

LONDON (WKRC) - A never-before-seen portrait by Pablo Picasso was found beneath one of the artist's paintings using x-ray technology. The Courtauld Institute of Art made a shocking discovery when ...

A specially crafted lightbox has been made so viewers can see the new discovery as an X-ray image. Richard Windsor is a freelance writer for The Week Digital. He began his journalism career ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...