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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the stunning image of Cartwheel Galaxy. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, ...

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

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

The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. See 25 'never-before-seen' images from the observatory to mark the anniversary. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

BAE Systems is celebrating the successful launch of NASA's SPHEREx Observatory from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ...

Chandra, who was born in India, lived in Boston for 10 years. On Wednesday, he signed to play golf collegiately at New York University. “Honestly, the reason I’m going to NYU is because I’ve lived in ...

While that quest is still ongoing, the observatory made history as the place where assistant Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. (If you’re still not over its dwarf planet demotion ...

Watch the launch in the player above. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to ...

Illustration of a planet being torn apart by tidal forces from a white dwarf. (Credit: CXC/SAO/M.Weiss) ...

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 ...

Image showing the structure of galaxy NGC 5084, with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory overlaid on a visible-light image of the galaxy. Chandra’s data, shown in purple, revealed four plumes of ...