People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has shown that a planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf—one of the dimmest ...

Astronomers are using the Chandra X-Ray observatory, a powerful, space-based telescope, to examine the first black holes. These black holes appeared in the first one to two billion years after the ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Now, data from two X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, has uncovered the grim fate of a planet there. The Helix Nebula is called a ...

Credit: CXC/SAO/M.Weiss NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has helped track down the origin of a mysterious X-ray signal emanating from deep space. The signal, which scientists have been working to ...

A brief yet intense X-ray flash, XRT 200515, was detected in NASA's Chandra telescope data from 2000. The signal, originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, has left scientists debating its cause.

With concerns about the longevity of the Chandra X-ray Observatory in NASA's budget ... could blast off in the 2030s without too much development time required. These are the Probe-class missions ...