Astronomers from Australia and Serbia have performed multi-band photometric observations of a binary star known as V717 Andromedae. The observations yielded crucial information regarding the ...

The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but two ...

The only thing Will and his family know about this binary system is that the Robot used the word “danger” to describe it. And if the Robinsons have found themselves at the contact binary star VFTS 352 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Asteroid Dinkinesh continues to surprise us. On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft zoomed past this ...

NASA's Lucy mission discovered that its initial target asteroid, Dinkinesh, possesses a binary satellite system consisting of two objects in permanent contact (a contact binary). The Lucy Long-Range ...

In a recent study accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics, a team of researchers use a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes to examine a binary star system (two stars orbiting each other) in ...

Contact binary stars are systems in which both stellar components share a common envelope, resulting in complex interactions and energy transfer. These systems exhibit characteristic light curves that ...

Indian astronomers have investigated a type of binary star system called W Ursae-Majoris type contact binaries. The research ...

History has been made at the New Horizons operations headquarters at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab on January 2, 2019. The team unveiled new images received late in the day yesterday, and it’s ...