The breakthrough study made use of IXPE's unique X-ray polarization feature.

NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a once-theoretical picture of stellar cannibalism into a mapped, measurable ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding of what happens to matter in the direct vicinity of a black hole. With ...

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Update: Liftoff of Falcon 9 at 1 a.m. ET! NASA's IXPE spacecraft is now en route to Earth orbit, where it will study X-rays from cosmic objects like black holes. Read the full story here. Follow live ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket. NASA ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist’s concept released Nov. 19, 2025, to illustrate the first use of NASA’s IXPE (Imaging ...