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

A not-so-distant white dwarf named WD 2226-210 has been on our radar since the 1980s for releasing X-rays, now we may know ...

A privately funded crew will launch on a SpaceX rocket next week on a mission to orbit Earth's poles - something that has ...

nor the Euclid Space Telescope. In fact, there are actually not many observatories that look at X-rays in general. "The Athena X-ray observatory being developed by ESA — though currently ...

releasing bursts of X-ray radiation, according to the statement. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! A second possibility could be that the ...

Einstein Probe captures a rare X-ray flash from an unusual celestial pair. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The European Space Agency announced on Wednesday that the Einstein Probe satellite ...

The International Space Station supports a wide range of scientific activities, from looking out at our universe to ...

The spectrometer for the All-Sky Monitor experiment was delivered to the space station by the Progress MS-28 resupply ship in August MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. A SPIN-Kh-1-MVN X-ray spectrometer ...

The cosmonauts were expected to spend six hours and 43 minutes in space, but their mission lasted 7 hours 17 minutes instead. Their primary goal was to install and connect the SPIN-X1-MVN X-ray ...

In X-Ray binary systems, a compact object (like a Black Hole, a Neutron Star or a White Dwarf) usually rotates about an optical star. An X-Ray binary with a Neutron Star as the compact object can be ...