Researchers from IIT Guwahati and ISRO have discovered surprisingly low polarization in X-rays emitted by the Galactic Ultraluminous Pulsar...

In a groundbreaking study, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed new insights into Westerlund 1, the largest and closest 'super' st...

ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation, announced on Thursday that a payload on its recently-launched mission has successfully captur...

Launched on January 1, XPoSat carries two co-aligned instruments, POLarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timin...

The satellite will seek to understand the sources of x-rays and study blackholes. The satellite is set for launch on board the Polar Satell...

The launch comes after the success of its Gaganyaan Test Vehicle D1 mission in October. The PSLV-C58 rocket, in its 60th mission, would car...

An instrument on board India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has provided outstanding science results on the solar corona and heliophysics, the Ind...

Although black holes does not have a surface, it is confined within an invisible boundary, called an event horizon, from within which nothi...

Washington, Sep 5 (IANS) NASA's Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI -- a sounding rocket mission -- is soon set to stare directly ...

Data captured by a 'lost' satellite mission has provided scientists with vital information about gases in a galaxy cluster 240 million ligh...

Bengaluru, Nov 7 (IANS) India's multi-wavelength space telescope AstroSat had measured the X-ray polarisation of the Crab pulsar (star) in ...

Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) Sun-like stars and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth, making the a...

London, Feb 1 (IANS) Observing a curious neutron star in a binary system known as the 'Rapid Burster', scientists have found that its magne...

Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in anoth...

Washington, Sep 24 (IANS) A NASA-funded sounding rocket to study the origin of X-rays in the universe has helped scientists reveal a new my...

Scientists have developed a new model for understanding how stars similar to our Sun evolve, which may help determine the age of stars more...

Researchers said that this is one of the nearest super massive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing such violent outbursts.