Getting a skull X-ray is a quick, safe, and painless way to find fractures, tumors, and other problems inside your head or brain. ‌ X-rays are a type of radiography, meaning they use radiation ...

The crew further demonstrated a DXA (Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) scan. Throughout their first two full days on-orbit, the crew took the first-ever X-ray in space, 130 years after the first X ...

The 772-pound NuSTAR X-ray observatory was carried into an equatorial orbit about 400 miles above the Earth by a Pegasus rocket, which fired its three-stage motor for 13 minutes after being ...

“So I just put the skull into orbit,” he says. In the title, “orbit” also refers to the technical name of the skull’s eye cavity, and “vanitas” refers to the emptiness of ...

Japan put into orbit on Wednesday an X-ray astronomy satellite that could shed light on the mysteries of black holes, carried on an H-2A rocket launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre in the ...