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

Further observations of J085039 have suggested that it is an X-ray binary due to its positional coincidence with the star ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...