A rare triple-star system surrounded by a disk with a spiral structure has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma-led research team. Recent observations from the Atacama Large ...

Image caption: Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). A ...

ICYMI, Starbucks’ Star Days promo made its grand return on Oct. 17 and ran through Oct. 23, but it looked different than it did in the past. Straying from the OG offers (including Triple Star Day) ...

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The box in the ground-based image reveals the location of Hubble’s view within the wider context of this triple-star system. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare and breathtaking image of ...

Shortly after NASA’s Kepler mission began operations back in 2009, the space telescope spotted what was thought to be a planet about half the size of Saturn in a multiple-star system. KOI-5Ab was only ...

Some stars (like our sun) prefer to live alone, while many others tend to live in pairs. Then, there are “vampire stars.” Unlike more well-behaved and stable cosmic pairs, these stars instead siphon ...

Some massive stars may exist in systems of not just two, but three interacting stellar bodies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A ground-breaking new discovery could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe. Research by PhD student Jonathan Dodd and Professor René ...