The white dwarf–brown dwarf pair J0404+1112 — one of only about a dozen known systems like it — offers researchers a chance to study a substellar atmosphere blasted with intense radiation.
Globular clusters have far fewer binary stars than the solar neighborhood. New research identifies black hole burning as the culprit.
Why do spicules — tiny spikes of plasma on the Sun — appear to rotate, split, and merge? New simulations reveal the possible cause of these motions.
Researchers have discovered a millisecond pulsar with two stellar companions — one of only a handful of these rapidly spinning stellar remnants known to be in a triple system.
The hot Jupiter WASP-12b is on a collision course with its host star, and it’s heading that way faster than expected. New research examines a possible explanation for the planet’s speedy inspiraling.
Last year, gravitational wave detectors triggered on what may have been a collision involving a sub-solar-mass neutron star. New research investigates a potential link between this event and a supernova.
New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.
New radio observations provide the best view yet of the WISPIT 2 planetary system, revealing spiral wakes driven by a growing young planet.
Researchers use stellar pulsations to detect substellar companions around A-type stars — including what could be a first-of-its-kind exoplanet.
Handwritten eclipse observations and sketches of solar prominences from 1733 offer researchers a rare window into a data-poor period of solar history.