A strange exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf gives a peek at the future of our own solar system
This illustration shows the white dwarf WDJ0914+1914 and its Neptune-like exoplanet. Since the icy giant orbits the hot white dwarf…
Astrophysics
Voyager 1 Is Detecting a ‘Hum’ of Plasma Waves in The Void of Interstellar Space
Voyager 1, having spent over 43 years zooming away from Earth since its 1977 launch, is now a very long…
Powerful Magnetic Fields in Space Have Been Seen in Bending Black Hole Jets
In a galaxy cluster called Abell 3376, some 600 million light-years from Earth, one galaxy has an active supermassive black…
Saturn Has a Weirdly Neat, Symmetrical Magnetic Field
Saturn really stands out among the Solar System planets, and not just because of its glorious system of rings. Its…
Reflections from a Black Hole
This 2003 composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active galaxy, NGC 1068, shows gas blowing…
Dark matter could be destroying itself inside the bellies of exoplanets
In the continuing search for dark matter in our universe, scientists believe they have found a unique and powerful detector:…
The Dumbbell Nebula, the first planetary nebula discovered
The Dumbbell Nebula is being produced by a very hot white dwarf that has been ejecting gas for thousands of…
Researchers discover the mechanism that likely generates huge white dwarf magnetic fields
A dynamo mechanism could explain the incredibly strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars according to an international team of…
Determining the birth population of double neutron stars
The study of neutron star populations helps unravel how they formed and evolved. Until now, using gravitational-wave detectors, scientists were…
Breathtaking New Hubble Image Shows a Giant Star on The Brink of Annihilation
The spectacle of space has our jaws constantly dropping, and the picture that was just released to celebrate 31 years…