Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.

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

NASA’s Chandra spots unusual 'knots' in a nearby black hole jet. X-ray data shows bright knots in Centaurus A black hole’s ...

When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented but flawed images. Its images ... Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Wolk Chandra’s potential demise is especially galling to researchers because the telescope continues to operate normally and is capable of observations at resolutions no other X-ray observatory ...

Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time ... A decade later, the Chandra X-ray observatory began monitoring changes in X-ray emission from the nebula, chiefly those radiated ...

Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... Meanwhile, astronomers continue to stress ...

Using NASA's space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "danger zones" for planets that ... the resultant images and "stitched ...