Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

It is being dragged along by its parent star. NASA scientists have discovered what they suspect is the hypervelocity star racing through space with a Neptune-like planet in tow. The system appears ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system's pace is pending ...

According to NASA, the star AG Carinae shines with ... highly magnetized neutron star called a pulsar, which was formed when a massive star ran out of its nuclear fuel and collapsed.

In 1992 astronomers reported the first planet-size masses around a dead star, the pulsar PSR1257+12 ... Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm ...

Artist's concept of a super-Neptune orbiting a fast-moving, low-mass star. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)) ...