Gaze upon the magnificent beauty of this newly found star system in orbital “resonance,” where its six exoplanets orbit their star in astoundingly perfect — and rare — mathematical harmony.

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

It can be easy to assume that the way things are in our solar system are mostly how they are elsewhere in the universe – but that’s often not the case. Now, astronomers have observed a triple star ...

Astronomers have observed what they believe is a triple-star system in space surrounded by a chaotic disc of dust that could form planets. The stars orbit each other and the dust disc is shredded in ...

Last year, scientists discovered a mathematically perfect star system — and now, they’re looking into whether it might contain signs of alien tech. All the same, scientists aren’t done looking, and as ...

Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova, an ultra-powerful and gold-producing explosion created ...

Our Solar System is a normal, regular kind of star system where a bunch of planets orbit one star, right? Not so—it’s thought that most stars are in binary systems, where two Suns orbit each other.

There is now one more reason to gaze at the sky, total solar eclipse aside. The explosion of a distant “star system” will temporarily paint the night sky with its bright guts soon, offering stargazers ...

Mark your calendars because sometime around 2083 a star as bright as Sirius will suddenly appear in the night sky. Based on 130 years of telescopic photographs, astronomers Bradley E. Schaefer, Juhan ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Pretty soon we may know of a few distant alien rocky planets ...