Canada and Japan have been proud partners in the International Space Station (ISS) since the inception of the project in the ...

NASA's newest astronomical instrument, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), launched into orbit last September ...

XRISM’s data debut proves its extraordinary capabilities The latest X-ray observatory found a warped black hole disk and a supernova spewing iron — and it’s just getting started.

The secrets of the Universe continue to unfold. The first observations from the XRISM telescope are changing our understanding of matter around black holes and supernovae by revealing details ...

Data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black holes.

Data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black holes.

A new space telescope has detailed mind-blowing details about a supermassive black hole and a supernova remnant. The XRISM mission revealed that the temperature of the supernova's iron ions ...

XRISM showed features in the plasma in the millions of degrees, but the most extraordinary and extreme find is the presence of iron at a temperature of ten billion degrees Kelvin.

The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a distant supermassive black hole and a closer supernova.

Learn how the NASA/JAXA X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) will study the 'X-ray Cosmos' in this explainer from the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.