Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning ...

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

Astronomers have found a new explanation for mysterious cosmic radio pulses. These long-period transients, previously ...

DEEP in space are clusters with ancient stars that mysteriously defy aging leaving scientists completely baffled. Now experts ...

FAST observations reported by Universe Today and the University of Hong Kong identify a repeating fast radio burst whose signals indicate an origin within a binary star system.

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

Astronomers have observed a Sun-like star dim dramatically for nearly nine months after being obscured by a vast cloud of gas and dust. A huge cloud filled with vaporized metals has been spotted ...

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