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

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

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

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

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 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

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 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 ...

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

The blast—were we around to see it—would appear around 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky. This form of ... The discovery of the binary star system was made by astronomers ...

The astronomers observed the orbital path of the two stars ... binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit is rather incredible and exciting. “The discovery was serendipitous, as our ...

the 48th brightest star in the night sky. T Corona Borealis is a binary star system around 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis, the “Northern Crown.” It consists of a ...