For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star ...

Could the nearby star Sirius B explode as a type Ia supernova, like some other white dwarf stars in binary star systems have? Bruce Mason Encinitas, California A type Ia supernova occurs when a ...

A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star ...

Binary star systems are pairs of stars held together by gravity, orbiting a common center of mass. More than half of all ...

Mark your calendars because sometime around 2083 a star as bright as Sirius will ... These are star systems made up of two or more stars where a normal star is in a binary orbit around a white ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

Collectively, the star system is the fourth-brightest star in Earth's sky (not including the sun), after Sirius, Canopus and ... This was only the second binary star system to be discovered.

Learn more: You can see a galaxy with the naked eye: Astrotourism is an adventure 'you can't experience from photos' The brightest star in the night sky is the Sirius star. According to NASA ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

This artist’s impression shows a binary system in which a white ... precursor for a type Ia supernova; however, the stars of the Sirius system are too widely separated for mass transfer to ...