Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have performed spectrophotometric observations of an eclipsing white ...

Kepler is now beginning its second mission, K2, which is proving to again provide ultraprecise photometry for a large sample of eclipsing binary stars. In the 1951 light curves covering 12 days in the ...

Astronomers have detected a new tidally pulsator star (TTP) by analyzing the data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

Over the past six decades, scientists have discovered two dozen stellar-mass black holes using X-ray methods. These black ...

Exoplanets in binary star systems usually orbit both stars, but astronomers have now spotted three planets orbiting one or ...

A stellar binary could explain the red supergiant's pattern of intermittent dimming, but not everyone is convinced.

This Unistellar science lab extends the tools developed in the Unistellar Eclipsing Binary Lab to observe and characterize the light curve of an occulting asteroid. By using real data collected by ...

According to NASA, a partial lunar eclipse happens when a portion of the moon enters Earth's shadow. During this event, the ...

Astronomers measure distances to the stars in terms of light years, units that combine time and distance. One light year is the distance light travels in one year; so if you look at a star ten ...

not false positives such as nearby eclipsing binary star systems. Peering through the second largest light reflection ...

The planetarium will offer eight unique programs, including two screenings, on its state-of-the-art panoramic projection ...