Zinia Khattar of San Diego, the second Fellow, was awarded a $50,000 science scholarship. “Being named a Davidson Fellow is a very welcome surprise,” Smith said. “I am thankful to see how much my ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

Astronomers from Australia and Serbia have performed multi-band photometric observations of a binary star known as V717 ...

Betelgeuse, the brilliant red star marking Orion's shoulder, has long been suspected of harboring a secret. I have to confess, Betelgeuse holds a special place in my heart as the first star I ever ...

Artist's impression of a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) orbiting each other. The stars’ orbit is so tight that their magnetic fields interact, causing pulses of radio emission every two ...

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

The rare nova explosion—once it happens—will be so bright that you'll be able to spot it without a telescope. reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night ...

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, ...

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In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period transients. These objects emit bright radio signals that repeat every few minutes ...

A Caltech astrophysicist and an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts ...