Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems, ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have uncovered ...

The twin stars in TOI-2267 orbit each other closely, forming what scientists call a “compact binary”. One of its planets ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's Atacama Desert. The image was captured with the newly installed SOAR ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrej Prša, Villanova University (THE CONVERSATION) Stars are the fundamental ...