The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time ...

Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.

The two planets in NN Serpentis are not currently close to the binary stars, but the double-star system was not always as tight as it is now .

These systems come in several types, with the planet orbiting one or both stars. About half the binary systems involve stars that are very far apart: 1000 times the Earth-Sun separation or more.

They study suggests that binary star systems such as NGC 1333-IRAS2A will periodically become 10 to 100 times brighter than normal, perhaps for 10 to 100 years every 1,000 years.

This unusual system 'shouldn't exist,' says one astronomer, who notes the orbit is as long as his daily commute. By Briley Lewis Published Aug 8, 2023 6:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

The researchers identified five systems that are known to have multiple stars — Kepler-34, -35, -38, -64, and -413 — which could also support a habitable zone. In a single-star system ...