Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down on 9 or 10 May ...

According to the IXPE's findings, high optical to X-ray polarization ratio indicates that Compton scattering might be the mechanism of X-ray generation. There are two possible and competing ...

Stratolaunch tests reusable hypersonic rocket plane. Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world's largest airplane.

NASA has released three new pieces of cosmic sound that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: ...

Japanese astronomers have presented new results of observations that suggest an unidentified X-ray source designated AX ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

Astronaut Anne McClain talks about her mission aboard the ISS and what it means to represent Washington state in space.

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground ...

A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused ...

Mach 10, ten times the speed of sound, would be about 7,600 mph. It hasn't been reached yet, but could a pilot even survive ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...