Astronomers have captured the first-ever direct images of a collision around "Fomalhaut," as published in the journal Science ...

Gaze upon the magnificent beauty of this newly found star system in orbital “resonance,” where its six exoplanets orbit their star in astoundingly perfect — and rare — mathematical harmony.

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

James Webb observations detect warm carbon monoxide gas in the inner disk of HD 131488, revealing non-equilibrium conditions and evidence of exocomet-driven gas replenishment near the star.

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

It can be easy to assume that the way things are in our solar system are mostly how they are elsewhere in the universe – but that’s often not the case. Now, astronomers have observed a triple star ...

Astronomers have observed what they believe is a triple-star system in space surrounded by a chaotic disc of dust that could form planets. The stars orbit each other and the dust disc is shredded in ...

Last year, scientists discovered a mathematically perfect star system — and now, they’re looking into whether it might contain signs of alien tech. All the same, scientists aren’t done looking, and as ...

Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova, an ultra-powerful and gold-producing explosion created ...

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Our Solar System is a normal, regular kind of star system where a bunch of planets orbit one star, right? Not so—it’s thought that most stars are in binary systems, where two Suns orbit each other.

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