Today, the European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations. During its 22 years in space, Integral has reshaped our view of the most dramatic events in the universe. The high ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

Athena, or Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics, is a European Space Agency (ESA) large-class mission expected to launch in 2028. The spacecraft is an X-ray observatory expected to ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.

In the two years since ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra space telescopes opened their eyes to the X-ray Universe, the world’s X-ray astronomers have been busy analysing and interpreting ...

ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, INTEGRAL, will be the most sensitive gamma-ray observatory ever launched, able to detect radiation from the most distant violent events.

ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has resolved the diffuse glow of gamma rays in the centre of our Galaxy and has shown that most of it is produced by a hundred individual sources.

The ESA has announced that it has used the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to view hot gas sloshing around inside a galaxy cluster for the first time.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved plans for the Athena X-ray space telescope, which will be the largest of its kind ever built. Costing about €1 billion, the flagship project will launch in ...

Using XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers were able to detect ultra-fast black hole wind sourced from a distant galaxy called Markarian 817.

The European Space Agency (ESA) nearly lost its veteran gamma-ray space telescope Integral last month when a charged particle disabled one of the reaction wheels that keep its solar arrays pointed ...