For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

The X-ray signal from WD 2226-210 is similar to the X-ray emissions of two other white dwarfs that do not sit within cocoons ...

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

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

By contrast, two older X-ray telescopes, ESA’s XMM-Newton and, especially, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, both launched in 1999, can produce much higher-resolution images of the intra ...

Italian astronomers report the detection of a new X-ray binary (XRB), which has received the designation 4XMM J181330.1-17511 ...

On 27 May 2024, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) on Einstein Probe spotted X-rays coming from within our neighbour galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). To uncover the origin of this new ...

Astronomers are further intrigued by the fact that XRT 200515 sported certain characteristics that appear different from those exhibited by other unknown X-ray flashes the Chandra telescope has ...