https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/ Chandra Press Room :: Recent Discoveries en-us https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_041426.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_041426.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Sun-like stars are calming down and dimming in their X-ray output more quickly than previously thought. Unlike in the movie "Project Hail Mary," this quieting of young stars is a benefit for the prospects for life on orbiting planets around these stars — not a threat. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_032426.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_032426.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400 A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes found that supermassive black holes are unable to consume material as rapidly as they did in the distant past. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_031026.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_031026.html Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400 A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_022326.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_022326.html Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500 For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_020426.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_020426.html Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500 The 'AstrOlympics' project connects the amazing physical feats of the athletes competing in the Olympic Games to the spectacular physical phenomena discovered by NASA and other telescopes in space. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_012826.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_012826.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 A new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster started to assemble only about a billion years after the big bang, one or two billion years earlier than previously thought. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_010626.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_010626.html Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_121725.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_121725.html Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole's jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_121625.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_121625.html Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 A luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) named AT 2024wpp likely came from an extreme event where a black hole up to 100 times the mass of the Sun tore apart a companion star that got too close. https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_121525.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_121525.html Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 A new project from Chandra reveals stunning connections between the vast universe and the microscopic world that we cannot see with the naked eye.