A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

Water ice shapes the outer regions of our Solar System in profound ways, forming the thick crusts of moons like Europa and ...

When a star is born, it doesn’t emerge in isolation. Instead, it forms inside a large, chaotic cloud of gas and dust. Around ...

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...

The study's authors found that certain orientations of twin star systems may provide critical information about planet formation, while also being easier for astronomers to discover planets within ...