NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova

NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in…

NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time

By Michael Allen  For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to study a white…

NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery

Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin…

NASA IXPE’s ‘Heartbeat Black Hole’ Measurements Challenge Current Theories

Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding…

NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter…

NASA’s IXPE Obtains First X-ray Polarization Measurement of Magnetar Outburst

What happens when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the power of 1,000 Suns in a matter of seconds?…

NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue

NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our…

NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets

Editor’s note: This article was updated June 2, 2025 to include the link to the scientific study published in Astrophysical Journal…

NASA Research To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting

From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA missions…

NASA’s IXPE Details Shapes of Structures at Newly Discovered Black Hole

NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole…

NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona

New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature…

How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft

The large wall monitor displaying a countdown shows 17 seconds when Amelia “Mia” De Herrera-Schnering tells her teammates “We have…

IXPE General Observer Program Opens Doors to Global X-ray Astronomy

Launched in late 2021, the science activities for NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission were directed by researchers at…

IXPE Operations Update

NASA confirmed the IXPE spacecraft resumed normal science operations April 3, following a successful spacecraft avionics reset on March 26.…

IXPE Operations Update

Editor’s Note, April 3, 2024: IXPE resumed normal science operations on April 3. Learn more https://blogs.nasa.gov/ixpe/2024/04/03/ixpe-operations-update-2/. On March 23, NASA’s…