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

A dying star molting its final layers in space seems to be in the midst of a sad, solitary experience — at least from a ...

A recent snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope captured the structure and shape of NGC 6072, which was described as 'a ...

The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white ...

An international team of astronomers has employed NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory to perform the most detailed study of a ...

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

The article discusses the challenges in measuring the basic properties of stars due to their astronomical distances. It ...

Don't miss the waxing crescent moon shine alongside Spica and the stars of the constellation Virgo in the hours following ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such ...

For the study, the team identified nearly 600 edge-on binary star systems based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia DR3 catalogue of high-precision stellar astrometry.

But a new Yale study offers a road map for finding “twin” planetary systems — showing whether binary stars that orbit each other, and that were born at the same time and place, tend to host similar ...