Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

New 3D-printable models of Chandra X-ray Observatory images will allow you to hold a star in your hands and touch a supernova ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have uncovered the likely cause behind a mysterious fracture in one of ...

Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular ...

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

NASA scientists are tracking a star which is so powerful it would rip a human apart if they came within 600 miles - and they ...

In a close-up of the Rosette Nebula — a stellar nursery 5,200 light-years away — dark clouds of gas and dust are seen being ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

The surprising object, dubbed SGR 0501+4516, is a magnetar, a neutron star with ... remnants or massive star clusters with which it could be associated," NASA representatives added.