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 directly imaged a massive young planet orbiting two tightly bound stars at solar-system-like distances.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

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

Some stars in our galaxy, known as hypervelocity stars, move much faster than most other stars in the Milky Way. In fact, they are traveling so fast that our galaxy's gravity can't hold onto them and ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

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

Astronomers have long searched for clues that a hidden companion star sits out of view near the red supergiant ...

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Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...