For the first time ever, researchers may have witnessed why planet-forming material sticks together – because of complementary gas flows. Scientists in France recently detected a stream of gas flowing ...

Researchers at Istanbul University and Akdeniz University have made an important discovery about the CN Lyn star system. Unlike most multi-star systems, CN Lyn's three stars formed at different times, ...

A team of astronomers observed a confused exoplanet orbiting its two parent stars in a highly unusual way. As New Scientist reports, the planet, which was first discovered in 2004, is located in a ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

Artist’s impression of the nu Octantis system. Image generated by ChatGPT-4.0 and further modified by Trifon TRIFONOV using the GNU Image Manipulation Programme. Most stars in the Universe exist in ...

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

Interesting! I didn't realise fusion of Helium could happen at the surface of a star, due to lack of necessary temperature and pressure. I'd been reading about reactions that produce most heavier ...