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 ...

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 ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: the first binary stars ever observed orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the heart of the Milky Way. The stellar pair, ...

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first ...

A long-standing astronomical mystery about the first-ever discovered brown dwarf has finally been solved by scientists. The brown dwarf, named Gliese 229B, was discovered in 1995 but has puzzled ...

A research team has used both archival Hubble Space Telescope data and new observations to precisely measure the binary star system NGC3603-A1. One star weighs about 93 times the mass of our sun, ...

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 ...