"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...

The iconic Kepler Space Telescope has retired, but the quest for new worlds continues!✨ In this video, we dive into Kepler’s ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

A huge "nightmare world" where it "rains glass" and winds blow at a speed of up to 5,400mph has been found just 64.5 ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated ...

Kepler's advance created a new challenge, however. Because his telescope offered a much greater field of view, astronomers had plenty of room to improve magnification. One way to do that ...

NASA has identified a rare and unusual "blue lurker" star that was produced during the collapse of a triple-star system in ...

There have been several observing projects on the Allen Telescope Array. One was a reconnaissance of star systems found to have planets (or planet candidates) by NASA’s Kepler Mission, and especially ...

Today we have confirmed about 4,000 exoplanets. The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009. Kepler’s mission was to see how many planets it could find orbiting ...

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...