Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that defies the conventional understanding of planetary formation in binary ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

In binary systems, interactions between a white dwarf and a companion—including main-sequence stars, neutron stars, or another white dwarf—can lead to a rich variety of phenomena, such as ...

A dying star molting its final layers in space seems to be in the midst of a sad, solitary experience — at least from a ...

Smartphones require some pretty specific pieces of tech (and specific materials) in order to work. As it turns out, those ...

That's because Gaia22ayj is actually a white dwarf feeding on a companion star, with this binary in a rare and short-lived phase of its life (or should that be death).

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white dwarf stealing matter from a nearby donor star. Occasionally, that matter ...

Both teams releasing papers detected the object independently, using different sets of data. Both teams found the same ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel and undergoes a core ...

White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems ...