International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.

Scientists have recently uncovered a fascinating new exoplanet a mere 30 light-years away from our solar system. What sets ...

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 ...

But before putting a period on his research, Bajaj decided to dig a little deeper into the data returned by the James Webb Space Telescope to see what else it might reveal. Little did he know that ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

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, ...

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...

A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star system, where one of the stars is a millisecond pulsar and the other is made ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

Rubin Observatory basks in the glow of this vibrant sunset from April 2025. From atop its perch on Cerro Pachón in Chile, Rubin will repeatedly scan the entire southern hemisphere sky for a decade, ...

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 ...