Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives. Astronomers have captured a spectacular scene of two ageing stars sculpting ...

Gigasoft releases ProEssentials v10 with GPU compute shaders and publishes six-part WPF chart library comparison for ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

The physics behind stable circular orbits in binary stars explores how gravitational forces balance to create long-term orbital stability between two stars. Learn the fundamental principles of ...

On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, ...

Since the third Gaia data release in 2022, wide binary stars with separation greater than several thousand astronomical units have been intensely investigated across the world, to probe the nature of ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

Quebec's Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Montreal-area hair salon to pay $500 in damages to a non-binary person. The ...

A Montreal hair salon has been ordered to pay $500 to a customer who claimed the company’s booking system is discriminatory.

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...