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 ...
The breakthrough study made use of IXPE's unique X-ray polarization feature.
In a remarkable breakthrough published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astronomers using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has finally answered a ...