Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE ...

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula, which lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the ...

The pulsar, formally known as PSR B1509-58, 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. Observations provide ...

This illustration shows NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, at lower left, observing the newly discovered binary system Swift J1727.8-1613 from a distance.

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It's the first time researchers have been able to map the magnetic field in a pulsar using X-ray telescopes. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.