Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

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

Binary star orbits are oriented randomly. Sometimes, it happens that a telescope's line of sight aligns with the plane a binary star system orbits on.

Binary stars orbit around each other, and in eclipsing binary stars, one passes in front of the other, relative to the telescope lens. Merikanto/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Think of a playground ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close ...

A seemingly ordinary white dwarf star, located just 130 light-years away, has revealed an extraordinary secret: it is the ...

A typical white dwarf’s core elements are obscured by thick layers of hydrogen and helium—but that covering almost entirely ...

Astronomers from Wuhan University in China have employed the Insight-HXMT satellite to observe a giant outburst that occurred ...

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...

NASA’s Webb telescope found strong evidence for a Saturn-mass planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like star to ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two ...