The boundary between stars and planets appears increasingly indistinct. Objects such as brown dwarfs, neither fully stars nor ...

The discovery of the fourth star was done through an algorithm called QUADCOR, which isolates the distinct spectral ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view. However, Cheng and colleagues observe ...

The four-star system features three stars in stable orbits, plus a fourth at a distance equal to Jupiter's orbit around our ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

The birth of massive stars involves gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, all of which influence the flow of matter.

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have looked like billions of years ago. The star is surrounded by a ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first in astronomy. The system’s compact, cold nature ...