In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Sandia scientists developed a new type of X-ray that uses patterned multi-metal targets to create colorized, high-resolution ...

In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the ...

A study led by University of Oxford and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers has uncovered how exposure to hydrogen ...

The launch carried with it few instruments to help observe the Sun at historically close quarters. Key among these are the ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

A new study has used X-ray imaging to show hydrogen altering the internal structure of stainless steel, revealing how ...

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the ...

One of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear X-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke, Spada ...

Novel materials have a wide array of potential scientific applications, and these honorees have prototypes that could wind up ...