The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system designated SXP 138. Results of the NuSTAR observations, published ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

A faint cosmic spin – one rotation per 500 billion years – could resolve the stubborn Hubble tension by tweaking standard ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

Exoplanet orbits binary stars at a 90-degree tilt Discovered using ALMA and VLT telescopes Orbit challenges planetary formation theories ...

One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the ... by astronauts during space travel can cause fluids within the body to shift. This can cause changes to the cardiovascular system, including vessels ...

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 ...

This is possibly the first time such a thing has happened, astronomers believe. It gives a new insight on how planets die and how even after they die, stars still affect space.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...