Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gone from a faint outsider to one of the most closely watched visitors in the Solar System, ...

Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) pixel sensors represent a pivotal technological advance in X‐ray astronomy, integrating a high-resistivity sensor layer with advanced CMOS circuitry on a single chip. This ...

This image shows a collection of 25 new space images celebrating the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 25th anniversary. Starting from the upper left, and going across each row, the objects imaged are: Crab ...

All space missions come to an end. Some die quietly of old age, running out of fuel or power. Some go in a blaze of glory, plunging into an atmosphere and burning up, sending back data to the last.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just done something no visitor from another star system has ever been caught doing: it ...

An illustration of XRISM, a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite with contributions from NASA and ESA. Credit: NASA NEW ORLEANS — A Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite, with contributions from NASA and ...

WASHINGTON — India launched an astronomy satellite to start a year that will feature key tests for its human spaceflight program and a potential joint crewed mission with NASA. A Polar Satellite ...

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of four great space telescopes NASA launched in the 1990s, revolutionized our understanding of the universe from the moment it first began recording X-rays ‒ the ...