This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation. This finding supports model predictions about how two- and ...

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to image a young, multiple-star system with unprecedented detail, yielding important clues about how such ...

A team of professional and citizen scientists has found a Neptune-like exoplanet orbiting one of two Sun-like stars in a binary system. The planet, dubbed TOI 4633 c (and nicknamed Percival), was ...

A team of Indian astronomers has uncovered a groundbreaking discovery about how planets might form in multi-star systems. Led by Liton Majumdar from the National Institute of Science Education and ...

Gamma burst Scientists using NASA's Fermi space telescope have discovered one of the most instense energy sources in the comsos - a rare gamma-ray binary star system. The discovery opens a new window ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to the solar system, known as Barnard's star. The newly discovered exoplanet has around half the mass of Venus, which classifies it ...

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

Mercury exhibits a magnitude of -0.8 in the evening sky, remaining visible for approximately 80 minutes post-sunset. Mercury's close proximity (20 arcminutes) to the star Mebsuta (Epsilon Geminorum) ...

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