With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy, is being torn apart by the gravitational ...

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

The novice nun Maria is devout, eccentric, comical, forthright, tender, wry, panicked, sensuous, naïve, authoritative — in ...

The difference this time is that two stupendously precise detectors ... yet in familiar contexts like the gravitational pull of the Sun or Earth, Einstein’s predictions barely differ from ...

Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud ... These stars, which are over eight times the mass of our Sun, typically survive for only a few million years ...