Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

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 ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Objects known as neutron stars, or pulsars, are the densest in the universe, but they suffer from seismic disturbances.

Astronomers Puzzled to Find an Odd Radio Signal Coming From a Fracture in the Milky Way’s ‘Cosmic Snake’ The Milky Way galaxy ...

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.

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way. Using NASA’s ...

The Milky Way has a giant serpent-like structure that is broken in two places. Scientists say a radio signal is peeking from ...

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the ...

Looking towards the center of the Milky Way, astronomers have previously spotted giant structures that are sometimes referred ...

Astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes, have discovered a pulsar likely caused a fracture ...