A planet twice the size of Jupiter has been confirmed in Nu Octantis. Its retrograde orbit and origin raise new questions about planetary formation in binary systems.

Artist's impression of the nu Octantis system. Image generated by ChatGPT-4.0 and further modified by Trifon TRIFONOV using the GNU Image Manipulation ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

Dr. Trifon Trifonov, head of the Bulgarian exoplanet research group within the “EXO-RESTART” project at Sofia University’s ...

Until not many years ago, scientists didn’t think planets could exist around a pair of stars. The complications from the ...

A Kennedale ISD substitute teacher has been arrested after parents say she showed sexually explicit material to their children. The substitute teacher, identified in court records as 38-year-old ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the Star Wars movie trilogy where Luke Skywalker watched two suns set on the ...

A “loving” dog lost his “best buddy” — and now, he’s back at an Alabama shelter. Murray the 2-year-old pup waits for a fresh start after his beloved owner died. “There was no one ...

Federico Dimarco has won praise for adding danger to the attack in yesterday’s Serie A clash between Torino and Inter Milan. Today’s print edition of Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport, via ...

This discovery offers a unique opportunity to study molecular cloud evolution and star formation conditions. A proposed NASA mission named Eos could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

The Star Wars universe has always been wild, not just because someone’s swinging a lightsaber every five minutes, but because there’s never been a dull moment in the galaxy far, far away.While some ...