Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

University of Iowa graduate research assistant Jacob Payne uses nitrogen to dry off a mirror at Van Allen Hall in Iowa City on Friday. Payne — with guidance from UI Physics and Astronomy Associate ...

Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At ...

The new images capture light that travelled for more than 13 billion years to reach the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. They show the cosmos when it was just 380,000 years old — much like ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), ...

Data from the XRISM X-ray satellite provide unprecedented detail on how ionized plasma moves in massive galaxy clusters — a question with huge cosmological and astrophysical implications. Read the ...

NASA astronaut Nick Hague holds a patch for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) at the end of a T-handle tool during a training exercise on May 16, 2024, in the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping block. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...