Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how ...

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 ...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Bucknell p hysics & astronomy Professor Katelyn Allers and postdoctoral researcher Blake Pantoja have observed an astronomical anomaly few have encountered before.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary system. The newfound ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...