X‐ray optics and telescope mirror technology form the backbone of high-energy astrophysical research, enabling the capture and precise imaging of celestial X‐ray sources. Advances in the fabrication ...

In the summer of 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) released its very first images to the public. Now, astronomers have combined X-ray images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with the ...

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory to be world’s largest and provide new insights into high-energy Universe.

Exoplanets are often discovered using the transit method (more than three-quarters of those discovered have been found this way.) The same transit technique can be used to study them, often revealing ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

There are certain places you just expect to be haunted. Boarded up houses, medieval castles, and abandoned animatronic restaurants are usually a good bet. In Five Nights at Freddy’s (streaming now on ...