The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR ...

Zinia Khattar of San Diego, the second Fellow, was awarded a $50,000 science scholarship. “Being named a Davidson Fellow is a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.

According to IT Home, the truly remarkable aspect of this system lies in its orbital speed. The two giant stars complete an orbit around each other in just 3.8 days. In contrast, while Earth takes a ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Rochester may have missed out on the total solar eclipse in April 2024 due to clouds, but it has another chance to see a once ...

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these ...

In binary star systems, the behavior of protoplanetary disks presents complex challenges to existing models. A research team from the University of Grenoble Alpes, including Pedro P. Poblete, Nicolás ...

Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf in V Sagittae consuming its twin star at record speed, a stellar drama that may end ...

Stargazers will need a clear view of the western horizon to spot the moon near Spica as the sun sets on Aug. 27.

Neutron star collisions are known to be factories in which heavy elements are produced. The fusion that takes place inside ...