The Hubble Space Telescope has been monitoring the binary star system R Aquarii. Credit: NASA / ESA / Matthias Stute / Margarita Karovska / Davide De Martin / Mahdi Zamani New images from NASA's ...

When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science ...

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 ...

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary ...

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Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...

How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.