The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: ...

Anna O’Grady has been selected for the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, one of the most competitive international awards in ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe. They can fling material outwards at speeds close to that of ...

Astronomers have finally identified the source of unusual X-rays from the bright star gamma-Cas, resolving a decades-long ...

Binary star systems (two stars gravitationally bound in orbit around each other) are one of the many phenomena found in our galaxy that seem from science fiction. Tatooine anyone? However, they are ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly bound stars. This quadruple star system is described in a new study, ...

The four-star system features three stars in stable orbits, plus a fourth at a distance equal to Jupiter's orbit around our Sun. Reading time 2 minutes Astronomers have identified a rare, tightly ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...