USING simple circuitry, polarizing film, and LEGO® toy bricks, an undergraduate physics student from the Ateneo de Manila University recently built an improvised polarimeter that can optically assess ...

The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the universe at the largest and smallest spatial ...

The discovery of primordial gravitational waves through cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization B-modes remains one of the most significant objectives in cosmology, as it would provide the ...

Spire Global, the space-based data and analytics specialist, has won a concept study contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to improve wildfire detection. The company, which has offices in ...

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona.

India to build re-usable launch vehicle after nailing third landing of mini-spaceplane India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability India inches space program forward with ...

Abstract: Label-free single-cell analysis plays a crucial role in the biomedical field. In this article, we propose a dual-angle Mueller matrix polarimetry (DMMP) measurement system for the label-free ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The new observations reveal hidden details of what happens after a star dies and becomes an object known as a pulsar ...