Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through…

A rapidly feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy in the early universe, shown in this artist’s…

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large…

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have identified a supermassive black hole that has torn apart one star and…

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas crossing one another.…

Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity.…

A quarter of a century ago, NASA released the “first light” images from the agency’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This introduction…

By Rick Smith On Aug. 26, 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory opened its powerful telescopic eye in orbit and captured its…

By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a…

NASA’s Universe of Learning – a partnership among the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Caltech/IPAC, the Center for Astrophysics |…

By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi…

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of…

It’s time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space.…

The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this…

This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be…

Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in combination with other…

A new project provides special 3D “experiences” on Instagram using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes through…

A team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams,…

These images show evidence for an exhaust vent attached to a chimney releasing hot gas from a region around the supermassive…

New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A —…

In the year 1181 a rare supernova explosion appeared in the night sky, staying visible for 185 consecutive days. Historical records show…