The discovery of the fourth star was done through an algorithm called QUADCOR, which isolates the distinct spectral fingerprints of all four stars simultaneously. By detecting the individual signals, ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rare and violent collision between two planets orbiting a star known as Gaia20ehk, located over 11,000 light-years from Earth. The unprecedented discovery, ...

The four-star system features three stars in stable orbits, plus a fourth at a distance equal to Jupiter's orbit around our Sun.

The birth of massive stars involves gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, all of which influence the flow of matter. Find out more here: ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view. However, Cheng and colleagues observe ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more than 4 billion years ago.