Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...
The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...
A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...
In the companion study, currently under peer review, Webb imaged Sextans A's interstellar medium and discovered polycyclic ...
One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...
NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...
The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to ...