Astronomers led by a team from Warwick University have found a binary star which they believe is heading towards a supernova. Light variations from the system (called HD265435) indicate that the larger star is distorted into a teardrop shape by its d...

Illustration of an ultra-cool dwarf star with a companion white dwarf. Ace citizen scientist Frank Kiwy used the Astro Data Lab science platform at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab to discover 34 new ultra-cool dwarf binary systems in the Su...

Artwork depicting a so-called micronova. This is an entirely new phenomenon in astrophysics, reported by astronomers at the University of Durham in the UK. They are highly explosive events that occur in a subsclass of cataclysmic binaries called inte...

Artwork of a cave on an exoplanet orbiting a binary star. The cave looks out the the binary star and the Milky Way galaxy....

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have identified the first eclipsing magnetic propeller in a cataclysmic variable star system, according to research forthcoming in the Astrophysical Journal. The system J0240 comprises a highly magnetic whi...

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have identified the first eclipsing magnetic propeller in a cataclysmic variable star system, according to research forthcoming in the Astrophysical Journal. The system J0240 comprises a highly magnetic whi...