The ability to modulate an X-ray beam lead to data rates in the gigabits per second range, greatly enhancing our ability to move data around in space. What’s more, X-rays can be more tightly ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

A new mission from SpaceX will soon send humans over Earth's poles for the first time ever. Launching no earlier than Monday (March 31), the privately funded, four-day Fram2 mission has quite a ...

The document, titled “Space Warfighting: A Framework for Planners,” outlines how U.S. forces might assert control of the orbital high ground through a range of offensive and defensive operations, ...

NASA has released three new pieces of cosmic sound that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: ...

Strange X-ray pulses blasted out from a recently awakened monster black hole are the most powerful astronomers have seen, and may help explain how these cosmic behemoths emerge from their slumber.

Earth’s atmosphere absorbs X-rays, so X-ray astronomers must place their telescopes in space. The Chandra telescope was launched by the space shuttle Columbia in 1999 and is today operated by ...

This mission not only breaks that boundary but also carries out over two dozen scientific experiments, including the first X-rays of humans in space. The team is also said to be camera-equipped to ...

Outer space is not exactly a friendly environment, which is why we go through great lengths before we boost people up there. Once you get a few hundred kilometers away from our beloved rocky ...