A 1-megaton nuclear blast could prevent 97% of a city-killer asteroid from hitting Earth
A 1-megaton nuclear explosion detonated near a 160-meter asteroid produced damage and motion consistent with the object breaking…
X-ray-driven Hanbury Brown and Twiss spectroscopy
Crookes, W. Contributions to molecular physics in high vacua—magnetic deflection of molecular trajectory—laws of magnetic rotation in high…
Enhanced inverse Compton scattering via spontaneous focusing induced by a coated plasma mirror
Cole, J. M. et al. Experimental evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of a high-intensity laser pulse…
First x-rays captured in space mark breakthrough for astronaut health
Medical care in space has long faced a quiet but serious limitation. For more than 40 years, astronauts…
Nara Smith reveals daughter Whimsy Lou’s cancer battle and remission
Popular content creator Nara Smith has broken her silence to share the devastating reason behind her recent social…
Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b
Using spectral data from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers detected helium escaping from LHS…
It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What are these little red dots?
To figure out what the little red dots might be, if not simply really big galaxies, scientists turned…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…
Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats
Around 70% of Earth’s surface is covered in water, a uniquely anomalous substance that often behaves differently compared…
Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source
Shortly after the free-electron laser (FEL) concept was proposed in the 1970s11, the first FEL oscillator was developed12…
Coherent nonlinear X-ray four-photon interaction with core-shell electrons
Mukamel, S., Healion, D., Zhang, Y. & Biggs, J. D. Multidimensional attosecond resonant X-ray spectroscopy of molecules: lessons…
XMM-Newton Offers Incredible X-ray View of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory have captured an X-ray image of 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to…