"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

N-body simulations of primordial binaries and tidal capture in open clusters / Sverre J. Aarseth -- When and how can binary data test stellar models / Birgitta Nordstrom / Johannes Anderson -- ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.