Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

TESS previously revealed that Thuban, a former North Star, is also a eclipsing binary, as ... More illustrated here. Three such pairs make up a newly discovered sextuple star system called TYC ...

When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a pair of brown dwarf stars orbiting each other in a rare system known as an eclipsing binary. Further observations show that the binary, named 2M1510, is even more ...

Each star in the three pairings – A, B, and C – orbit each other in a matter of days. So, from the point of view of our planet, some of the stars in the system get covered partially by their ...