Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

In an extraordinary testament to the predictive power of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a star system has been ...

New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system that may ...

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 ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in ...

Mercury exhibits a magnitude of -0.8 in the evening sky, remaining visible for approximately 80 minutes post-sunset. Mercury's close proximity (20 arcminutes) to the star Mebsuta (Epsilon Geminorum) ...