Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is ...

A strange star has revealed to astronomers a mysterious past — one that involves the merger of two ancient suns.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times more massive than the sun, a pair of stars locked ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

A supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* lurks at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The region surrounding ...

Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The discovery "supports the idea that water ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...

The newly discovered binary was found in a dense cluster of stars and other objects orbiting Sagittarius A*, called the S cluster. Most enigmatic in this cluster are the G objects, which behave like ...