Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova, an ultra-powerful and gold-producing explosion ...

The European Very Large Telescope in Chile has photographed a planet orbiting a star in a multi-star system that sits some 480 light-years from Earth. Skip to main content.

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare star system that is doomed to explode in a 'kilonova' caused by the merger of two neutron stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Binary star systems, or pairs of stars that orbit around each other, are very common. In fact, it’s estimated that 85% of stars in the universe have at least one companion.

Astronomers have found 30 exocomets, or comets located outside of our solar system, orbiting a nearby star called Beta Pictoris. And the exocomets have some things in common with those found in ...

This star system “last exploded in 1946 and astronomers believe it will do so again between February and September 2024,” according to NASA. Here’s what we know.

Astronomers have detected a new triple star system, known as TIC 470710327, that is unlike any similar system seen before. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

"Look at a solar system like this one, where the planets are in this nice synchronicity and look at a number of other planetary systems that show the same thing, and hopefully we can figure out ...

Astronomers gazing upon a star system not too far from Earth were recently treated to a marvelous discovery: a group of six planets moving around a sun-like star in a seemingly perfect cosmic ...

D9 is the first star pair ever found near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission line of hydrogen mapped by the SINFONI instrument ...