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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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) ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...