Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems – two supermassive ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

NASA has identified a rare and unusual "blue lurker" star that was produced during the collapse of a triple-star system in ...

Pluto and Charon created a binary system, rewriting planetary formation theories and hinting at hidden subsurface oceans.

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and ...

This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... enough to detect the gravitational wave signal from a single binary system in one galaxy. And even the most powerful telescopes can’t ...