The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of NGC 1535, or the Cleopatra’s Eye Nebula.
This Hubble image shows NGC 1535, a planetary...
Variations in the brightness of light seen from around a stellar-mass black hole in the binary system MAXI J1820+070 were caused by a huge warp in its...
The white dwarf observed by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a member of the binary system TW Pictoris and is known to be accreting...
Astronomers using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a large radio telescope network located mainly in the Netherlands, have detected coherent low-frequency...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered five transiting companions...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have detected a set of eight X-ray rings around a low-mass black...
HD 265435 is a binary system with an orbital period of around 100 min that consists of a white dwarf and a hot subdwarf star.
An artist’s impression...
In a study to be published in the Astronomical Journal, astronomers found that many exoplanet-hosting stars identified by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet...
Astronomers using NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States and by the Virgo detector in Italy have observed...
A giant star called VVV-WIT-08 exhibited a smooth, eclipse-like drop in brightness to a depth of 97% in 2012; minimum brightness occurred in April 2012...
The newfound circumbinary planet, named TIC 172900988b, is slightly larger than Jupiter and transits both of its host stars, according to a paper to be...
Gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations of neutron-star-black-hole mergers can provide precise local measurements of the Universe’s rate...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of a planetary nebula called the Necklace Nebula.
This Hubble image shows the Necklace...
The newly-discovered stellar-mass black hole candidate is a binary companion to a nearby red giant called V723 Mon.
An artist’s impression of the V723...
Using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) have found that fast radio bursts include...
Kepler-34, Kepler-35, Kepler-38, Kepler-64 and Kepler-413 — multiple star systems located between 2,764 and 5,933 light-years away in the constellations...
A black hole in the Cygnus X-1 binary system is so massive that it challenges current stellar evolution models.
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus...
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope and the enormous computing power of the citizen science project Einstein@Home, astronomers have found that...
