Using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), which launched in December 2021, scientists observed MSH 15-52 for about 17 days, revealing new details about the pulsar's magnetic field ...

NASA releases images of the 'bones' of a dead star, ... was first seen by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2001 and the pulsar wind was found to be 16,000 light-years from Earth.

Your skull has 22 bones — 8 cranial bones that protect your brain and 14 facial bones to make up your face. Your doctor might order an X-ray to look for fractures in those skull bones or to look ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of voracious supermassive black holes, exploding massive stars and even dark ...

NASA's newest X-ray space telescope has captured a ghostly view of a stellar explosion whose remains resemble a skeleton hand in deep space — and just in time for Halloween. The "ghostly hand ...