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

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

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

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

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

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...

Five young stars found in Chamaeleon using ATCA radio observations One star, J11061540−7721567, may be a 40-year-period ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely valuable.

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...