Until not many years ago, scientists didn’t think planets could exist around a pair of stars. The complications from the ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration (Music: Azul Cobalto) ...

A binary system 18,000 light-years away, emits X-rays as a Sun-like star orbits a dense companion, either a neutron star or black hole. Telescopes like Chandra, IXPE, and XMM-Newton capture its ...

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

These brown dwarfs, intermediate objects between giant planets and stars, form a rare binary system. The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, was detected through the gravitational disturbances it induces ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

Over the past 25 years, close to 70 presenters have appeared on the Loose Women panel. But while the original "fab four" of Nadia Sawalha, Jane Moore, Karren Brady and Kaye Adams have all enjoyed ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...

Sometimes when a small white dwarf star orbits a regular star, it can siphon off the larger star's energy. That's because a white dwarf star has about the same mass as Earth's sun, Hounsell said.

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...