Europe's Hera spacecraft has completed a major deep-space maneuver, setting it on course to rendezvous late this year with ...

New UNLV-led research is helping to unravel clues to a cosmic mystery that has eluded scientists for decades. Cataclysmic ...

A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, ...

Binary star systems have always captured people’s imagination, but this video looks at them as real places humanity might one ...

A new study proposes an innovative way to uncover elusive supermassive black hole binaries by tracking subtle, repeating flashes of starlight.

Faint flickers in the night sky have puzzled astronomers for decades. These subtle changes in brightness come from violent ...

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about ...

In a recent study accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics, a team of researchers use a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes to examine a binary star system (two stars orbiting each other) in ...

Some stars in our galaxy, known as hypervelocity stars, move much faster than most other stars in the Milky Way. In fact, they are traveling so fast that our galaxy’s gravity can’t hold onto them and ...

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 ...