Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee of the German Roentgen Museum holds an X-ray image of his hand, photographed by Wilhelm Roentgen, over a light box.

These test images are just a taste of what's to come when XRISM starts science operations later this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Newly released images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope take viewers on a road trip through the universe, offering spectacular sights of various cosmic attractions. When you purchase through links ...

An inset image by XRISM’s Xtend instrument, showing a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image: Inset, JAXA/NASA/XRISM Xtend; background, C. Smith, S. Points, the MCELS Team and ...

Astronomers have mapped out half the universe in X-ray light, using a space telescope called eROSITA. The new map, which contains almost a million X-ray sources, is the basis of dozens of new ...

Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has a "back catalog" of cosmic recordings ...

A difficult-to-describe nanoscale object called the magnetic skyrmion might one day yield new microelectronic devices that can do much more — for example, massive data storage — all while consuming ...

When Wilhelm Röntgen found X-rays in the late 1800s, the world was given a new way of seeing inside the human body and peering into hidden structures. That black-and-white imaging method still powers ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just done something no visitor from another star system has ever been caught doing: it lit up in X-rays. As its elongated orbit carries it through the inner solar ...