Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Astronomers have confirmed that three Earth-sized planets are orbiting two stars in the same system — a first in the history ...

This article delves into the discovery and classification of binary clusters, pairs of star clusters, which provide insights ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

A peculiar celestial couple has been identified about 3,800 light-years away, in the constellation Centaurus. Designated Gaia ...

Turns out the deaths of massive stars may be messier than scientists long believed. In A Nutshell What happened: Astronomers ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where ...