This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation. This finding supports model predictions about how two- and ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple ...

A team of Indian astronomers has uncovered a groundbreaking discovery about how planets might form in multi-star systems. Led by Liton Majumdar from the National Institute of Science Education and ...

This artist’s concept illustrates how tightly the three stars in the system called TIC 290061484 orbit each other. If they were placed at the center of our solar system, all the stars’ orbits would be ...

Astronomers have made an unprecedented discovery with the identification of TIC 120362137, a highly compact quadruple star system, recently published in Nature. This system is the most tightly bound ...

As the name implies, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was designed to spot exoplanets, but it's flexible. A team of professional and amateur astronomers have used the planet hunter ...