When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A massive white dwarf (lower left) and a "blue lurker" star (upper right) – which could ...

once part of a remarkable triple-star system. Possibly, it gained its observed turbo boost thanks to being a bystander while its two stellar siblings chaotically merged millions of years ago.

The young protostar T Tauri is about to be eclipsed by a huge disk of gas and dust that could prompt the star to fade or even disappear.

mixing with two other stars gravitationally bound together in a remarkable triple-star system. The star has a kinship to so-called "blue stragglers," which are hotter, brighter, and bluer than ...

This is an artist's impression shows a view of the triple star system HD 131399 from close to the giant planet orbiting in the system. The planet is known as HD 131399Ab and appears at the lower ...

astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to identify this blue lurker as being part of a triple star system with the appearance of our Sun. However, it’s the unique spin rate of this star that ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope cracked a “glittering cosmic geode” in a new image of a triple-star system. One of the stars gives us a glimpse of what our own sun might have been like ...

Polaris is also not one star. It's a triple star system, with the point of light you see actually the combined brightness of Polaris Aa (a yellow supergiant star) and the smaller Polaris Ab ...

once part of a remarkable triple-star system. Possibly, it gained its observed turbo boost thanks to being a bystander while its two stellar siblings chaotically merged millions of years ago. This ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...

Above 26, a variable star gets two letters. T Tauri is actually a triple star system, all three members of which are protostars that are still growing as they capture gas. As these stars grow ...