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

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

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

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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