Mercury is well placed in the SW evening skies the first two weeks of November, but is lost in its glare by Thanksgiving.

"Since about half the stars in our galaxy are in binary systems where life might develop too, we introduce a model of a ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...

NON-BINARY star Emma Corrin is being lined up to play Keira Knightley’s role in Pride And Prejudice. The Crown actor, 28, is the favourite of script writer Dolly Alderton to portray Elizabeth ...

Problem solved? If the problem is supplying enough lithium to build batteries for all the electric vehicles that will be needed by 2030, then a new lithium deposit in Arkansas might be a ...

A dead star 27,400 light-years away appears to be having one of the most epic stellar discos we've ever seen. In the binary ...

this discrepancy between Gliese 229B's brightness and mass may be because it's actually a binary star system, consisting of two brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are astronomical objects that are often ...

The "failed star" Gliese 229B has been revealed to be ... The revelation means that Gliese 229B is a "first-of-its-kind" tight brown dwarf binary, increasing the hope other such exotic systems ...