NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has ...

The unique system features two rare Wolf-Rayet stars, and a supergiant companion that is interrupting the flow of the dust ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...

Andalusian scientists discover a rare system where three Earth-sized planets orbit two stars, reshaping theories on how ...

We’ve encountered many planetary systems that aren’t quite so serene: distant reaches of space where multiple planets lurk within close proximity to multiple stars; systems in which stars and planets ...

This unusual system 'shouldn't exist,' says one astronomer, who notes the orbit is as long as his daily commute. By Briley Lewis Published Aug 8, 2023 6:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Mark your calendars because sometime around 2083 a star as bright as Sirius will suddenly appear in the night sky. Based on 130 years of telescopic photographs, astronomers Bradley E. Schaefer, Juhan ...