Two stellar explosions that lit up the sky in 2021 have now been dissected in unprecedented detail, revealing tangled shells, colliding flows of gas, and structures that defy decades of textbook ...

A WOMAN has left the internet totally gobsmacked after she opened up on her shocking pregnancy announcement. The mother, who ...

A strange brightening in the Lyra constellation led scientists to an object once mistaken for a planet. It turned out to be KOI-3278, the first-known self-lensing binary system—confirming a phenomenon ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our Sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away from their companion. The stolen matter builds up on the surface of the ...

Since its inception, speckle interferometry has revolutionized high-resolution astronomical imaging, overcoming atmospheric challenges to achieve the diffraction limits of telescopes. Almost a decade ...

During a discussion with an Amazon recruiter, Carnegie Mellon’s Runqiu Ye didn’t expect to be talking about binary stars. But the recruiter wanted to hear all about them. Binary stars — two stars ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

I study binary systems of various kinds, with the goal of finding empirical constraints on binary stellar evolutionary processes. Around half of the stars in the sky are in binary (or higher order) ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Nearly all the members of the Syracuse common council turned out for a committee level meeting this morning to raise concerns about the multi-million dollar, much delayed overhaul of ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last ...