Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895 revolutionised medical diagnosis. More than 130 years after that, SpaceX's ...

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly energetic electromagnetic radiation capable of penetrating most solid objects. His discovery transformed medicine almost ...

A team of four astronauts took the first X-ray of a human hand in space as they floated high above our planet, making medical ...

SpaceX's private Fram2 mission has achieved a significant milestone by capturing the first-ever human X-ray in Earth orbit.

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 ...

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts take the first X-ray images of the human body in space, with a tip-of-the-hat to the first X-ray ...

Many of us have gotten an X-ray at one time or another, either at the dentist's or the doctor's office. Now, astronauts ...

The first X-ray images ever taken are now part of the Memory of the World Register of United Nations Educational, Scientific ...

Featuring a hand with a ring, KA Imaging says the image mirrored the first ever X-ray image accidentally captured over a ...

A Waterloo, Ont. company is celebrating a world’s first on a mission that saw four space tourists orbit the north and south poles earlier this month.

Update 4/7/2025: The mission was successful, and produced the first X-ray image in space. Wang shared a picture of a person’s hand wearing a ring, echoing the first X-ray image captured by physicist ...

It pays homage to the first X-ray ever taken, which was captured about 130 years ago. In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally ...