French astronomers think they found Tatooine in real life and we didn't even have to travel to a galaxy far, far away…

We know that the Milky Way is surrounded by an array of satellite galaxies, the largest of which is the rather aptly…

There's an old fringe theory that the Sun isn't our system's only star, that a red dwarf star named Nemesis is hiding…

Back in September, NASA's planet-hunting satellite Kepler made one of its most dramatic discoveries when it spotted a…

This is AB7, a binary star system found in one of the nearby Magellanic Cloud galaxies. The two stars are constantly…

Stars known as blue stragglers have pretty much discovered the cosmic equivalent of the fountain of youth - they should…

have confirmed what it seemed inevitable: a planet orbiting a binary star. It's no Tatooine but a Saturn-sized gas…

Located just 4.3 light-years away, the Alpha Centauri star system is our closest neighbor. But theirs is a very…

Astronomers believed that binary star systems were too volatile to support many planets, because the overlapping…