Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: the first binary stars ever observed orbiting the supermassive black hole ...

It orbits a white dwarf — the remnant core of a once sun-like star — every 1.4 days. Initially, scientists were unsure whether the object was a planet or a brown dwarf, the so-called "failed ...

White dwarfs are formed after stars like the sun undergo an expansion ... into more distant orbits, potentially sparing them from destruction. Using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, UC Berkeley ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of a planet orbiting a binary-star system at close to a right angle 1. The system is also unusual in that both stars are brown dwarfs — objects ...

"This is compelling evidence that planets can not only survive the violent death of their star, but also move into orbits where we didn't previously necessarily expect them to exist," said Limbach.