In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

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 ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

A new report explains a young star system where low-density planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes begin to form, based on new findings from the V1298 system ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomy has illuminated the mysterious dynamics of a binary star system, HD 135344 AB, where a giant planet was discovered orbiting the primary star— a star that had ...

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 ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year. Reading time 3 minutes Sky watchers were ...

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 ...

SPACE (KXAN) — A rare nova could occur in the next few nights. Called T Coronae Borealis, the “Blaze Star” and “T CrB” by astronomers, the binary star system could produce an explosion visible to the ...