An international consortium of astronomers, including students at the University of Texas at Austin, have discovered a planetary system consisting of at least two massive Jupiter-like planets orbiting ...

Andalusian scientists discover a rare system where three Earth-sized planets orbit two stars, reshaping theories on how ...

With a specialised telescope in Namibia a DESY-led team of researchers has proven a certain type of binary star as a new kind of source for very high-energy cosmic gamma-radiation. Eta Carinae is ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

Astronomers have discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 binary system, 190 light-years away. This marks the first known binary system with planets transiting both ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

Radio astronomers have been puzzled over the past few years by super-bright radio waves dubbed long-period radio transients. These signals appear to come from various locations around our galaxy, but ...

Almost 25,000 light-years away, two dead stars, each more massive than our Sun, but only 20 kilometers in diameter, orbit one another in less than five hours. This unusual pair of extreme objects, ...