Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

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

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 ...

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

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has determined the origin of X-rays in the jet of a supermassive black hole, providing a direct answer to a long-standing question in X-ray astronomy.

Two composite images show side-by-side observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists used data from both ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk. The pair is called an “intermediate polar,” and MIT astronomers used powerful telescopes to measure ...

Magnetic turbulence plays a crucial role in confining charged particles near the shock front of Supernova Remnants, enabling them to reach energies up to hundreds of TeV through a process known as ...

A NASA satellite has helped scientists trace the main power source of a weird, switching pulsar named J1023 to a fast, particle packed wind smashing into nearby gas. The crucial clue is that X-ray ...

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measured X-ray polarization during an outburst from the magnetar 1E 1841-045, marking the first such measurement in the midst of an active flare. The ...