Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Skywatchers are scanning the night sky for an explosion that happened 3,000 years ago. A nova called T Coronae Borealis, ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

When it explodes, it will be in the top 50 brightest stars in the night sky, astronomers say ... to a magnitude +2 during the explosion. MORE: Binary star system found near the Milky Way's ...

Exoplanet orbits binary stars at a 90-degree tilt Discovered using ALMA and VLT telescopes Orbit challenges planetary formation theories ...

After more than a year of waiting and multiple false alarms, an elusive new star could appear in our skies tonight ... This blast originates from a binary star system made up of a massive red ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...