New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved, including ...

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 ...

Creative clocks are a dime a dozen, even clocks that use binary have been created in nearly every format. [typo] promises a ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...