Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical ...

An international team of astronomers has performed multiwavelength observations of a gamma-ray binary system known as HESS ...

Binary star orbits are oriented randomly. Sometimes, it happens that a telescope’s line of sight aligns with the plane a binary star system orbits on.

First, we computed a huge database of predictions about a hypothetical binary star – using the features that astronomers can readily observe – where we varied the hypothetical binary star’s ...

A typical white dwarf’s core elements are obscured by thick layers of hydrogen and helium—but that covering almost entirely ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

Astronomers have encountered a long-period radio transient (LPT), which is defying all their astrophysical assertions. The ...