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

Planetary nebulae like the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) are sort of like stellar obituaries. Though crystal balls supposedly reveal the future, the Crystal Ball Nebula tells us more about the past.

Berkeley — A bound pair of icy comets similar to the dirty snowballs circling outside the orbit of Neptune has been found lurking in the shadow of Jupiter. Astronomers at the University of California, ...

Objects in the solar system with weird orbits have been linked to a close encounter with another star during our stellar system's infancy. Findings of a new study suggest stellar flybys can indeed ...

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

A bound pair of icy comets similar to the dirty snowballs circling outside the orbit of Neptune has been found lurking in the shadow of Jupiter. Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a planet that orbits in the ...

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An international team of astronomers has shown that the two stars in the binary HM Cancri definitely revolve around each other in a mere 5.4 minutes. This makes HM Cancri the binary star with by far ...

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Astronomers have released the first-ever image of two supermassive black holes participating in a binary dance in the quasar OJ287, located approximately 5 billion light-years away in the ...

Using an old-style observing technique, astronomers have come to a very interesting conclusion: About half of all exoplanets in the galaxy are in binary star systems. That’s astonishingly cool. Mind ...