This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star's life can be utterly ...

Using NASA's space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "danger zones" for planets that are forming around young stars. The team ...

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

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 ...

They captured their first X-ray images shortly after breakfast and opened the cupola window three minutes after midnight UTC ...

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 ...

Astronomers may have solved a enigma involving a mysterious X-ray signal from a dying star that's been puzzling scientists since 1980. New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and ...

NASA discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, 52 million light years from Earth. It's 2.6 billion ...

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