At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Fall is an incredible time for amateur astronomers to get out there and look at the night sky. Some of the most recognizable and bright objects that can be seen in the night sky make their ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

Astrophysicists have observed an extraordinary event following the collision of two neutron stars—the explosive birth of a ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...