For the first time ever, scientists have seen a double-star system in another galaxy emitting gamma-rays, the most energetic form of light. The discovery was made by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space ...

Only 16 to 84 other examples of this exotic system may exist in our entire galaxy. Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

Those halcyon days may be over, but now, we have a double star system to enjoy instead. On March 6th, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) posted a mesmerizing image of a binary star system ...

Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen. Not only does this system feature the first-ever "polar planet" to be discovered, meaning the world exists on a sideways ...

Astronomers have found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars. New research led by ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner. Pulsars are spinning neutron stars that emit twin beams of radio waves from ...

the change happens over the course of billions of years Terzan 5 CX1 has been switching identities in the span of just a few years Scientists observed a double star system, or a binary system ...

FU Orionis, a double star system, first caught astronomers' attention in 1936 when the central star suddenly became 1,000 times brighter than ... A white dwarf star can explode as a supernova when ...

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 imaged the double-star system T Pyxidis, or T Pyx, over a four-month period. T Pyx is a recurrent nova, erupting every 12 to 50 years. T Pyx's latest outburst was in ...

NEW DELHI: Scientists have discovered a pulsating white dwarf in a double star system, which they say holds clues on how our Sun evolved and will eventually die. The discovery by scientists at the ...

A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: A hypothesized, distant body in our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." ...