Tucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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

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

The newly-discovered binary star system, which is home to two stars gravitationally ... The precise nature of many of the other objects – and, perhaps, even planets – orbiting Sagittarius ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive ... aim to further study such systems and explore the possibility of planet formation near black holes in our galaxy.

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole ... That hope comes after researchers found the first ever binary star near a supermassive black hole. That black hole happens to be ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?