By analyzing the available observational data, astronomers from the Tribhuvan University in Nepal and elsewhere have ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

NASA explained this phenomenon of the four planets: "The closest to the star, HR 8799 e, orbits 2.4 billion kilometers from its star, which in our solar system would be located between the orbits ...

A few hundred binary systems composed of two white dwarf stars are known. These two orbit closest to each other of any of them. They are about 25 times closer to each other than our solar system’s ...

The newly identified binary system is not just close. It’s also exactly the type of high-mass pair that scientists hoped to find. Published in Nature Astronomy, the discovery gives clear evidence of a ...

His adventures searching for the mysterious dwarf planets continue! Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation filled with fun, entertaining animations that also help you learn about the solar system ...

“For years a local and massive double white dwarf binary has been anticipated, so when I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our Galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited,” ...

Explore the distant future of our solar system as our Sun gradually cools and fades into a black dwarf. Rep. Don Bacon says he has "beginning support" for measure to claw back authority over ...

An exoplanet is a planet beyond the cradle of Earth’s eight-membered solar system. Hundreds of billions ... making it inkier than coal or black acrylic paint. The exoplanet is so dark that ...