A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close ...

Gaia22ayj is actually a white dwarf siphoning plasma from its companion star, a rare and fleeting phenomenon in stellar evolution. This process, often compared to a stellar vampire, allows the white ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, ...

Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

A typical white dwarf’s core elements are obscured by thick layers of hydrogen and helium—but that covering almost entirely ...

A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two stars merging — a rare stellar discovery revealed through Hubble Space ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star WD 0816-310. Credit: ESO ...

In a spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 glows with cosmic elegance and hides a strange survivor.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever.

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