NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist’s concept released Nov. 19, 2025, to illustrate the first use of NASA’s IXPE (Imaging ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept ...

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) has captured breathtaking new data about a white dwarf star once thought to be dead. In an unprecedented breakthrough, NASA’s Imaging X-ray ...

NASA’s IXPE Creates History: Becomes First to Measure a White Dwarf Star NASA’s IXPE has become the first observatory to measure a white dwarf star. It used its X-Ray polarization to reveal the ...

Advocates for space science research are concerned about job losses and cuts to funding at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and then settles into place. That is .

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Earlier this year, scientists used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization ...