What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a ...

In a "rite of passage," the JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope XRISM has mapped in detail Cygnus X-3, a curious binary system with a ...

The M87 galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole that has a plasma jet that is nearly 3000 light years long. In addition, ...

Instead of high-tech spacecrafts, are intelligent aliens using stars to travel around the galaxy? That's what a new research paper suggests. According to ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of binary star systems, consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star ...

T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star," is expected to explode violently in the near future, illuminating a long-dead binary star system for the first time in 80 years, according to NASA.

Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. This original text provides a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. The author combines theory and observations at all ...

It is a small but extremely massive and fast-spinning object -- a neutron star, part of a so-called 'X-ray binary star system' named '4U 1820-30'. It's found in the Sagittarius constellation ...