"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

For the first time, substantial evidence of a 90-degree trajectory around a pair of stars has been reported, thanks to images ...

If you thought planets only circled stars in neat, flat disks, think again. Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary system. Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that never had enough mass to ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system ... TOI-1453 belongs to a binary stellar system — in which a pair of stars orbit each other. Classified as a super-Earth and a sub ...

In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers revealed that WDJ181058.67+311940.94, a ...

More information: Michalis Kourniotis et al, HD 144812: A transition-phase massive star in a binary system, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.19961 Journal information: arXiv ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation.