Mining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team of astronomers studied the relics that one star left behind after ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Credit: CXC/SAO/M.Weiss NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has helped track down the origin of a mysterious X-ray signal emanating from deep space. The signal, which scientists have been working to ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

A new study used data from powerful X-ray missions, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, to look into the cause of a "puzzling X-ray signal" from a ...

It was a tiny change in the script, but the addition of the single question changed the whole tone of the debate by provoking ...