For this purpose, they employed China's Insight-HXMT satellite, as well as NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

N ASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station for more than eight months, even though they initially expected to s ...

Like the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope mounted outside of the space station, LEXI observes X-ray sources. LEXI and NICER observed the same X-ray star to calibrate ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spent the majority of its life studying the near ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are finally back on Earth. The two spent more than eight ...

The astronauts also installed patches to cover damaged areas of light filters on the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray telescope, replaced a reflector device on one of the ...

“Two years ago, NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray observatory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suffered a leak due to the likely impact of space debris. And ...

Using Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 during the rising phase of its 2018 outburst, we study the evolution of the timing ...

Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is crucial. An interdisciplinary team of ...