Here’s how it works. Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year. The highly energetic explosion was ...

The trick was to make them sympathetic characters. It is a very self-contained little fairy tale where they don’t get on, and then they begin to get on, and it ends in a very lovely, warm way.

The newly launched Einstein Probe is already spotting distant explosions with the potential to upend what we know about the universe’s earliest years. Using its wide-field X-ray telescope ...

Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope detected the weak X-ray signal of the transient EP240315a much earlier than its gamma-ray counterpart. This demonstrates the high sensitivity of its lobster ...