Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: ...

Uranus, the planet associated with radical change, technology and innovation, will enter the sign of Gemini on July 7 this ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen ...

Mercury mingles with the star Mebsuta in central Gemini this evening, though you’ll need to catch the pairing shortly after sunset.

We have carried out high contrast imaging of 70 young, nearby B and A stars to search for brown dwarf and planetary companions as part of the Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign. Our survey represents ...

Wide binary stars with separation greater than about 2000 astronomical units are interesting natural laboratories that allow a direct probe of gravity at low acceleration weaker than about 1 ...

Wide binary stars with separation greater than about 2000 astronomical units are interesting natural laboratories that allow a direct probe of gravity at low acceleration weaker than about 1 ...

Let’s Talk About Gemini Season—Here’s What Each Sign Needs This Cosmic Tide, According to Your Horoscope Our astrology expert, Lisa Greenfield, tells us there’s “electricity in the air ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a ...

That proof finally came in 1804, when eagle-eyed astronomer William Herschel noticed that the fainter of the two stars had shifted slightly in its position with respect to the brighter one. Herschel’s ...