In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

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

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

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

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

An international team of astronomers, including researcher from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...

Artist's impression illustrating a binary-origin scenario for fast radio bursts. A magnetised plasma cloud, generated by a ...

As stars move through space, they push away material and create a so-called bow shock ahead of them akin to a curved ridge of ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...