Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula, which lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the ...

Part of NASA’s Small Explorer mission series, IXPE launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in December 2021. It now orbits 370 miles, or roughly 595 ...

This is not the first pulsar wind nebula IXPE has observed, though it is currently the record-holder for the object with the longest dedicated observation (17 days).

Well, it'd be wrong to say it was all Chandra's doing. NASA's newest X-ray telescope in low-Earth orbit, IXPE, helped create this latest image as the twin probes set their sensors on a pulsar ...

A NASA X-ray instrument has provided a new view of one of astronomy’s most beautiful objects, the Crab Nebula. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE observatory was launched in December ...

NASA's Earth-orbiting IXPE satellite, which launched on Dec. 9, 2021, has helped to unravel the pulsar's chaotic surroundings, which were previously not well understood.

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has uncovered crucial information about the generation of X-rays in the extreme environments around supermassive black holes. This study, which ...

ABOUT IXPE. IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is a joint mission by NASA and the Italian Space Agency, designed to deliver groundbreaking insights into the universe through X-ray polarisation.