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Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

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A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS) and its operations are being temporarily halted while engineers look into a problem ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

Here are 8 incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing deep space images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the ...