Researchers accidentally formed gold hydride under extreme pressure, challenging gold’s long-held inert reputation and ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...

NASA has captured 25 years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory showing the aftermath of Kepler’s Supernova, a ...

Culturally, where do we begin 2026 in Chicago? Where we ended 2025, of course. From vacant lots to crowds of ‘bots, there are ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to ...

Obituaries for Perry County for the weeks preceding December 27. Marian L. Carnes, 83, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, ...

Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and ...

But in the years since, everything about Fenway has changed by, paradoxically, remaining pretty much the same. By just ...

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray transient event, which turned out to be an X-ray flare ...