There is a “doomed pair of spiraling stars” swirling ... practically our neighbor in space terms. The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision course ...

One audacious solution is transforming a star into a colossal engine ... planets orbiting either star. This suggests that a civilization in such a system might consider engineering its entire ...

Scarcity of housing, of energy, and even of space has allowed zero-sum thinking ... to the idea of masses of people living on this planet. And we have no patience for, certainly, the most racist ...

Determining habitable zones in binary star systems ... how the orbital evolution of the system affects the amount of radiation the planet receives, and (c) how the combined quantity and spectral ...

Astronomers from the Czech Republic and Argentina have employed the Gemini South telescope to observe a yellow supergiant ...

Research published in October 2024 revealed that one planet was rotating around Barnard's Star, the second-closest single star system to Earth ... at the European Space Observatory’s Paranal ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully ... dust swirling around a young star, similar to how planets in our own solar system formed. But recent research ...

The latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations focused on the HR 8799 system, which consists of four planets orbiting their host star about 130 light-years from Earth in the ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

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