The first-ever detection of gravitational waves was made 10 years ago today (Sept. 14). In celebration, Space.com takes you ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how massive stars evolve and form black holes. A team of astronomers combined archiva ...

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the bright stars, identified as red dwarfs —are separated by 1,656 astronomical ...

"This is the first quadruple system ever discovered with a pair of T-type brown dwarfs orbiting two stars," team member MariCruz Gálvez-Ortiz of the Center for Astrobiology in Spain said. "The ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Industrial waste remains a global issue threatening human health and the balance of ...

There are billion of binary star systems in our galaxy, including many of those stars closest to us. Can such systems host life, and what would it be like to live under two suns? Fitness Influencer ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

Medicare vouchers are a proposed change to the Medicare system that would involve giving beneficiaries funds, in the form of a voucher, that they can use to buy private insurance. The voucher system, ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

While many cars in production today can be had with Level 2 hardware and software for partial autonomy, a chosen few promise Level 2+ capabilities. Even fewer are truly Level 3, which is the difficult ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The automotive industry has changed in many regards over the decades, and these changes include a stronger emphasis on advanced driver-assistance systems. These technologies have enabled automakers to ...