Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a stellar companion. The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic ...

Within six months, Kilonova Seekers’ over 2,000 volunteers contributed more than 600,000 classifications to researchers, resulting in a total of 20 new discoveries. Now, astronomers have announced the ...

Astronomers have discovered a stellar binary, or pair of stars, with an extremely short orbit, appearing to circle each other every 51 minutes. The system seems to be one of a rare class of binaries ...

Dwarf novae are a prominent subclass of cataclysmic variables; binary star systems in which a white dwarf accretes matter from a donor star. This accretion process drives episodic outbursts due to ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

LOS ANGELES - Some might complain over a lack of excitement in our solar system but a recent discovery by MIT astronomers reminds us why we should be grateful for a "boring" location among the stars.

The Sun might be a solitary star in our solar system, but around half of all other stars in the Milky Way are part of binary systems, in which two orbit each other. These can have incredibly fast ...

ABSTRACT We have obtained photometric and spectroscopic observations of the suspected cataclysmic variable stars VW Tucanae, Phe 1, and Scl 2. VW Tuc and Phe 1 are confirmed as cataclysmic variables ...