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 ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s ...

NASA's X-ray space telescope IXPE has made the first observation of polarized light emerging from an outbursting ... 125,000-year-old ‘fat factory’ run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany. CNN.

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) collaborated with radio and optical telescopes to find answers. The results, available on the arXiv preprint server and set to be published in the ...

Astronomy 3D-print a realistic supernova remnant with NASA's new models of Chandra X-ray images. ... (IXPE). By assigning musical ... Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that ...

Using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, astronomers have made detailed observations of a highly magnetic dead star or "magnetar" as it threw a massive tantrum.