Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

A string of small gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central black hole has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, new observations ...

Star Wars-type Tatooine worlds are more common in the Milky Way and are actually better suited for planet formation. There is ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Central Lancashire have found that planets around binary stars form more often and in ...

Astronomers analysing NASA’s TESS data have spotted 27 candidate planets orbiting binary star systems using a method that tracks subtle shifts in eclipse timing. The approach, based on apsidal ...

Radio measurements are revealing the true masses of young stars hidden in dust, helping explain how a star's mass shapes its ...

A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists ...