Something odd is hiding in the early universe, and astronomers are only just beginning to notice it. Using the James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted “little red dots” in the universe, and a new X‑ray discovery from the Chandra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has, for the first time, detected X-rays from a 'little red dot' — a puzzling class of compact, distant objects first identified by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

AXIS would seek to advance technology from earlier programs, such as the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (above). Credit: NASA NASA is seeking a partner to help potentially develop the Advanced ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — When NASA in the summer of 2017 launched its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or ...

Scotch tape, that transparent, sticky hero of offices everywhere, could be a NASA superstar as well. The rolled-up adhesive tape is the inspiration behind a novel idea for a completely new kind of ...

A color-coded X-ray image from ground-based testing at SPring-8 shows the X-ray optics successfully focusing X-rays onto a sharp central point. Yellow-green indicates the highest X-ray concentration, ...

MPE scientists have separated solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) X-ray emission originating in our Solar System from the diffuse cosmic X-ray, using data from the SRG/eROSITA space telescope.