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

This planet exhibits an unusual, right-angled orbit around the binary system. While the planet's existence requires further ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

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

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Scientists could potentially detect Dyson spheres by looking for large, bright stars with an infrared companion — the signature of heat escaping from a Dyson sphere that surrounds the smaller star of ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ... and despite being so close to our solar system, this supernova will not endanger our ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...