The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass...
The well-studied V404 Cygni, an X-ray binary hosting a low-mass black hole, is part of a wide hierarchical triple with a tertiary companion at least 3,500...
TIC 290061484 contains a pair of stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just 25 days. The discovery smashes...
Astronomers using the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have observed Polaris, a member of a triple system and the nearest and...
The Hubble team has released a stunning image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the triple-star star system HP Tau.
HP Tau, a trio of dazzling...
Based on the book trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Chinese computer engineer Cixin Liu, Netflix’s sci-fi television series 3 Body Problem introduces...
Jets emerge from the cocoon of the multi-star system FS Tau in the new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This Hubble image shows FS Tau,...
In a new study, astronomers from Yale University and MIT examined the joint spin-orbit and orbit-orbit distribution for exoplanets residing in binary and...
Be-type stars make up almost 20% of the B star population, and are rapidly rotating stars surrounded by a disk. Although these stars have been known for...
LTT 1445Ac, a terrestrial planet in the triple star system LTT 1445, is only 1.07 times the size of Earth, according to a paper to be published in the...
At least three, and possibly four, progenitor stars crafted the oblong, curvy shapes of the Southern Ring Nebula, according to a new analysis of data from...
The triple star system LTT 1445, at a distance of 22.5 light-years, hosts some of the nearest rocky planets.
This Chandra image shows the LTT 1445 system:...
TIC 470710327, a massive, compact hierarchical triple-star system recently identified by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), was originally...
Beta Crucis is represented in the flags of Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.
Beta Crucis. Image credit: Naskies at en.wikipedia...
Astronomers from the University of Sydney, the Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Aeronautics and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced this week the...
K2-290A, the primary star in the triple stellar system K2-290, is tilted by 124 degrees compared with the orbits of both of its known planets, and has...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a trio of hot planets orbiting a much younger version of our Sun...
Using a newly developed system for mid-infrared exoplanet imaging, astronomers from the Breakthrough Watch Initiative say they can now use ground-based...