It’s first light for one of the newest space observatories! The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer team has released their first…
A new mission has launched to study some the most intriguing secrets of the universe. No, not THAT spacecraft (JWST…
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind…
NASA recently released a panoramic mosaic image that beautifully captures the mysterious and extremely energetic environment at the heart of…
X-ray astronomy helps scientists study neutron stars, binary star systems, and supernova remnants, and even helps detect black holes. But…
Hundreds of millions of light years away, a supermassive black hole sits in the center of a galaxy cluster named…
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole (SMBH) with an unusually regular feeding schedule. The behemoth is an active galactic…
A rogue star is one that has escaped the gravitational pull of its home galaxy. These stars drift through intergalactic…
In the coming years, NASA plans to test x-ray technology aboard the ISS as a way of creating more robust…
It's relatively easy for galaxies to make stars. Start out with a bunch of random blobs of gas and dust.…