"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

A blast of X-rays was seen coming from within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrated its 25th anniversary in stunning style. The space agency released 25 never-before-seen images from the space telescope on Tuesday. The views span the ...

Criss-crossing streams of superheated gas create a "chaotic landscape" in a distant galaxy cluster. NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope detected two new streams of gas trailing behind a galaxy within a ...

NASA frequently shares cosmic images, revealing intriguing details about star-forming regions, black holes, galaxies and ...

Pulsars are the remnants of large stars that exploded in a supernova. Check out these 7 stunning pulsar images shared by NASA.

Credit: Perseus Cluster: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V ... is located around 170 million light-years away. Both images were produced using Chandra and VLT data. The Centaurus Cluster and its supermassive ...

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found ... different from those exhibited by other unknown X-ray flashes the Chandra telescope has seen outside our galaxy, according ...