Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a planet that orbits in the ...

These dips are the sign that one of the stars in each binary is moving behind the disk as seen from Earth. When the star re-emerges, the brightness of the system returns to normal. Also, when the ...

Scientists have found a planet outside of the solar system, which was in the formation phase, by using the Very Large ...

A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star system, where one of the stars is a millisecond pulsar and the other is ...

While single-star systems like our own solar system and binary systems with two stars are common, less than 800 triple-star systems are known and only one features stars as close together as these ...

They then tracked these bursts for four and a half years, and their measurements revealed that this star isn’t alone. It’s actually part of a binary system, orbiting its companion every 3.6 hours.

Composite image of the unusual orbit of the exoplanet '2M1510 (AB) b,' around its host stars, two brown dwarfs, on April 16, 2025. ESO / L. CALÇADA No, these are not two rings each set with a ...