A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from the ...

Discover 27 new candidate circumbinary planets identified by TESS, reshaping our understanding of planetary formation around ...

Astronomers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney published the discovery on May 4, 2026, in the Monthly ...

Astronomers have captured a breathtaking view of the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514), a cosmic spectacle 1,500 light-years ...

A global team of researchers led by Indian scientists has made a world-first discovery of a blue straggler star hosting a ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...

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In 2018, astronomers discovered a pair of brown dwarf stars orbiting each other in a rare system known as an eclipsing binary. Further observations show that the binary, named 2M1510, is even more ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...