The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.

ASKAP J1832 is part of a rare group of space objects that pulse in radio waves every few dozen minutes. What makes it stand out is that it also pulses in X-rays, as detected by NASA’s powerful. This m ...

What are brown dwarfs? They’re not planets, not quite stars, but fascinating cosmic objects in their own right. Dive into the science of these “failed stars,” their role in the universe, and how they ...

That "new star" will appear when the star T Coronae ... During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star. Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist ...

A planet twice the size of Jupiter has been confirmed in Nu Octantis. Its retrograde orbit and origin raise new questions about planetary formation in binary systems.