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

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

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

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

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 ...

With complexity rising and certainty elusive, the most unshakable leaders are not the ones with all the answers; they are the ones who know where to lead from.