Students digging into data archive spot mysterious X-ray source 10 August 2018 An enigmatic X-ray source revealed as part of a data-mining project for high-school students shows unexplored avenues hidden in the vast archive of ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory. Read more

XMM-Newton finds missing intergalactic material 20 June 2018 After a nearly twenty-year long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have finally found evidence of hot, diffuse gas permeating the cosmos, closing a puzzling gap in the overall budget of 'normal' matter in the Universe. Read more

Star shredded by rare breed of black hole 18 June 2018 ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star. Read more

Cosmic blast takes rest at last 31 May 2018 ESA's XMM-Newton observations of a neutron star merger, obtained a few months after its discovery via gravitational waves, caught the moment when its X-ray emission stopped increasing, opening new questions about the nature of this peculiar source. Read more

Where is the Universe's missing matter? 18 April 2018 Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have probed the gas-filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find 'missing' matter thought to reside there, but have come up empty-handed – so where is it? Read more

Black hole feedback in the luminous quasar PDS 456 20 February 2015 Read more

An Optically Obscured AGN in a Low Mass, Irregular Dwarf Galaxy: A Multi-Wavelength Analysis of J1329+3234 19 December 2014 Read more

A Hot Cocoon in the Ultralong GRB 130925A: Hints of a PopIII-like Progenitor in a Low-Density Wind Environment 11 July 2014 Read more