A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Astronomers from Australia and Serbia have performed multi-band photometric observations of a binary star known as V717 ...

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

CANBERRA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A world-first discovery of binary stars, pairs of stars orbiting a common center of gravity, could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

Astronomers from ANU have discovered binary stars in globular cluster 47 Tucanae, potentially reshaping our understanding of the Milky Way's formation.

Zinia Khattar of San Diego, the second Fellow, was awarded a $50,000 science scholarship. “Being named a Davidson Fellow is a very welcome surprise,” Smith said. “I am thankful to see how much my ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...

Interacting binary stars, a class of stellar systems consisting of two gravitationally bound stars, exhibit a rich diversity of phenomena driven by mass transfer and angular momentum exchange. In many ...

Rochester may have missed out on the total solar eclipse in April 2024 due to clouds, but it has another chance to see a once ...

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 ...