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

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

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 ...

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

This journey through stellar life reveals not only the birth and death of stars but also the essential elements that foster life on planets ... corner. X-ray images from the Chandra X-ray ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

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