This image of a dusty, gas-rich nebula looks pretty, but appearances can be deceiving. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star…

In 2009, a binary star that had been flaring up for years suddenly exploded, growing millions of times brighter in a…

Some 380 light years away in the constellation Scorpius lies a star that has puzzled astronomers for over 40 years.…

Behold VFTS 352, the hottest and most massive “overcontact binary” star system ever discovered. The two stars, which…

For decades, astronomers have assumed that Earth-like planets cannot form around binary stars on account of wacky…

The Eta Carinae binary star system erupted twice in the 19th century, creating a stunning and rapidly expanding…

European astronomers have detected an unprecedented binary system featuring two hot blue O-type stars in orbits so…

For years, astronomers have been fascinated and perplexed by what appears to be a massive cloud of gas and dust…

New research shows that star-snuggling hot Jupiters, despite being only a thousandth of the mass of their host suns,…

There's some strange things floating around in our galaxy, but this has to be one of the weirdest. A double star…

Last century, a massive binary system went supernova, ejecting at least 10 times the mass of our Sun into space.…

It may not be anything like Tatooine of Star Wars, but this discovery is still incredible. We've found a frozen,…

Moons in close binary solar systems have a better chance of hosting life than those in single-star systems, new…

Every once in a while, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole flings a wayward star into intergalactic space at…

There is a demon's head winking at us every few nights. It's brightest during the winter months, so you might be…

What you're looking at here is the first direct imaging of a planet orbiting a pair of stars. Trouble is, the planet…

A team of scientists using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii have found four different pairs…

We already know that black holes swallow stars — and entire solar systems — but what effect does a stellar diet have…

Three different sets of binary stars - two stars locked in orbit around each other - are surrounded by huge clouds…