TESS previously revealed that Thuban, a former North Star, is also an eclipsing binary ... some examples of elegance more beautiful than we could imagine. One such example is the star system ...

And before we go any further, yes, you can check out a mesmerizing, visual representation ... better to have a wider sample size. Returning to the binary star system we're looking at with ...

have uncovered the first example of a phenomenally rare type of binary star system, one that has all the right conditions to eventually trigger a kilonova -- the ultra-powerful, gold-producing ...

Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system ... the first example of the phenomenally rare type of binary star system.

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a ...

You've heard of binary ... whole system. So with three objects, there are multiple gravitational forces to calculate. This diagram shows an example of a three-body system, with two stars labeled ...

Astronomers have found the first known example of a binary star system doomed to meet its end in an explosive collision known as a kilonova, a phenomenon so rare that it's estimated there are ...

and each brown dwarf/low-mass star binary system is an important laboratory to answer these questions,” says Popinchalk. ZTF J2020+5033 is such a large example of a brown dwarf that someday ...

Only 16 to 84 other examples of this exotic system may exist in our entire galaxy. Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

ZTF J1813+4251 is a classic example of a cataclysmic ... The ZTF J1813+4251 system stood out because it is also an eclipsing binary — as the two stars orbit one another, we can see one pass ...

Astronomers have discovered humanity’s first known example of a rare binary ... ten-billion system.” The system in question is known as CPD-29 2176, and it includes a massive star orbiting ...

Now, scientists have discovered that most blue supergiants form due to the merging of two smaller stars that once orbited each other in a binary system ... than the sun. Examples of stars like ...