Using the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system known as GX 9+1. Results of the ...

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative ... the Visible Near-InfraRed (VNIR) Imaging Camera, the Compact InfraRed Imaging System, and the Gamma Ray and ...

Formed from the collapse of massive stars (8-10 times the mass of the Sun). The resulting mass is a few times that of the Sun. Supermassive Black Holes: Found at the center of galaxies (e.g ...

Fermi Bubbles: NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope captured these twin bubbles extending 25,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s center. Milky Way's Core: A striking X-ray image reveals ...

The “Landolt NASA Space Mission” will launch a tiny ... allow scientists to more accurately measure the brightness of stars nearby and in far-off galaxies. The mission was named after the ...

NASA, an independent agency of the U.S. government, will no longer be upholding DEI efforts. In a press release, NASA shared its plans to comply with executive order “Initial Rescissions of ...

With the goal of further expanding its reach in space missions, NASA has signed an agreement with Rocket Lab USA, Inc. to integrate the Neutron rocket into the VADR program. This is a program to ...

NICER, an X-ray telescope perched near the station’s starboard ... Science Continues On Tuesday, May 22, NASA’s NICER (Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on ...

The researchers say that their study, which is detailed in Nature, shows that at least some FRBs originate from magnetospheric processes near compact objects such as neutron stars. This finding is a ...