Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different directions — plus a disk of compressed material forming along the middle, likely ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and ...

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

As if the two stars creating the “Cosmic Serpent” were not overwhelming enough, a giant third star is carving a dust ...

Binary and the X-Men We've already touched on her connection to Marvel's most beloved team, but seeing as she arrived in an X-Men-centric mid-credits sequence, this topic is worth digging into a ...

Binary stars are double stars, but not all double stars are binary stars. This is because some double stars comprise two stars close enough in the sky over Earth to appear as a single point of ...

When binary stars are similar in mass (left), the two stars orbit the system’s center of mass (denoted here with an X). Planets in an S-type orbit circle just one star in the system, while ...