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Astronomers have identified a tightly bound pair of stars that are spiraling toward a catastrophic merger, turning a distant ...

To us, with our one lonely star, binary systems seem foreign and strange—like rare diamonds in the sky. But in reality, a vast number of solar systems contain more than one sun. Imagining what the sky ...

Stars are easily observable in the night sky, either by the naked eye or with the aid of a powerful telescope, but while we know they exist and we understand their significance to any stellar system ...

It would seem that all this hubbub about nanosatellites isn’t as out of reach as originally thought. Scientists are already using nanosatellites in space today to observe the cosmos and beyond to ...

Paul Sutter is a research fellow at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and visiting scholar at the Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics. Sutter is also host of ...