Imagine if Star Wars' Tatooine twin suns went supernova. Scientists may have just found that in our universe.

The Jellyfish Nebula, one of the best-studied supernova remnants in our galaxy, may have been hiding a sibling this whole ...

Scientists have found the first evidence of a binary star system where both massive stars exploded as supernovae, leaving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a binary star system, two stars orbit around each other. ESO/L. Calçada, CC BY Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

When massive stars die, they explode, leaving behind supernova remnants. Given how common binary star systems are - more than ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

We may be looking for aliens in all the wrong places. Binary and multi-star systems, usually composed of two or more stars that either circle each other or a fixed point, may hold the key to finding ...

Binary asteroid systems are widespread throughout our inner solar system. For decades, the standard paradigm held that many of them form when a rapidly spinning primary asteroid casts off material, ...