Indian astronomers have performed X-ray observations of an X-ray binary designated 4U 1907+09. Results of the observational ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we ...

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

Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...

Two-time space traveler and billionaire Jared Isaacman, president Trump’s nominee to be the next NASA administrator, will appear at his nomination hearing Wednesday in the U.S. Senate ...

A Waterloo, Ont. company is celebrating a world’s first on a mission that saw four space tourists orbit the north and south poles earlier this month.

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.

Featuring a hand with a ring, KA Imaging says the image mirrored the first ever X-ray image accidentally captured over a ...