Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

European Space Agency announced on Wednesday that the Einstein Probe satellite has captured a rare X-ray flash from an ...

On May 27, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope detected X-rays from a new source, labeled EP J0052. Follow-up observations were conducted using the probe's Follow-up X-ray Telescope, as well as NASA's ...

Its age is estimated to be around 13 billion years, almost three times as old as the solar system. It orbits a binary system ...

At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to Earth. Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/H. Bond (STScl)/M. Barstow (University of Leicester) Red giants are hot enough to ...

However, upcoming gravitational wave observatories like NASA's space-based detector LISA ... a tightrope-walking white dwarf with a mass of about 10% of that of the sun's. In this scenario ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...

The flash was spotted by the Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT), which uses a novel type of design known as a lobster eye that can scan 3,600 square degrees simultaneously using 432 ...