Space & Aviation

Look up this year, and you could be rewarded with any of these cosmic sights—and mark your calendars, as they’re likely to be among the year’s best skywatching spectacles.

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question. They’re planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system, and scientists find them by observing subtle changes in starlight.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

An invaluable resource of space data is available to scientists and the public alike. The Chandra Source Catalog contains the detections from the mission over its lifetime. This allows Chandra’s X-rays to be combined with data from other .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has a “back catalog” of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compendium has been .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

A new video shows the exciting development of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades.

A new video of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant spanning a quarter century is out. Data from NASA’s Chandra from 2000 to 2025 were used to create this new video. Kepler’s is a type of supernova that scientists use to measure the universe’s expansion.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.