Believe it or not, black holes aren't just plain dark voids in the vastness of space 100 percent of the time. Occasionally, a black hole will spit up the contents of its stellar breakfast the same way ...

Satellite communications is a multimillion-dollar industry, relying on incredibly expensive equipment that must be built in sterile environments and tested rigorously before launching into space. Ajay ...

Leon van Speybroeck, 67, astrophysicist who designed a special universe-scanning X-ray “eye” for NASA, died of melanoma Dec. 25 in a Newton, Mass., hospital. Van Speybroeck was the telescope scientist ...

The Chandra X-ray Center operates under the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is housed in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The initial Chandra Observatory projects included the Hubble Space ...