Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

A team of astronomers observed a confused exoplanet orbiting its two parent stars in a highly unusual way. As New Scientist reports, the planet, which was first discovered in 2004, is located in a ...

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Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. Excited scientists have found three more planets around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star ...