Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.

This type of explosion is known as a classical nova, which occurs in a binary star system when a white dwarf pulls in gas ...

"We show how planets in binary systems can undergo a mirrored migration process, so that both stars end up with hot Jupiters.

Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours.

To address this difficulty, astrophysicists from Villanova drafted in artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could take what appears to be a single point of stellar light in systems many ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A binary star system has been identified consisting of a millisecond pulsar and a helium-rich companion star with a mass between 1 and 1.6 M☉ ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

A repeating radio burst every 2 hours from Ursa Major reveals a unique white dwarf–red dwarf system, shaking up theories in ...

The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in dramatic ways. In some cases, the gravity from one star can drag material ...