General relativity doesn’t just bend light, it can influence planetary orbits enough to wipe out entire systems.

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Some stars in our galaxy, known as hypervelocity stars, move much faster than most other stars in the Milky Way. In fact, they are traveling so fast that our galaxy's gravity can't hold onto them and ...

They pull us in, literally and figuratively. Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also capture the popular imagination as ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...

How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Has the gender madness fever finally broken among America’s youth? Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, compiled a report for the Centre for Heterodox Social Science ...

Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article ...

Binary options trading requires speed, accuracy, and the right analytical tools. Whether you are trading short-term contracts or managing risk on economic events, your software platform plays a key ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...