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 science ...

There's a demon in the early-morning sky, amid the stars of Perseus the Hero. Second-magnitude Algol (Beta Persei) is also ...

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

Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned ...

Two Yellow Supergiant Eclipsing Binary Systems Discovered: First Of Their Kind Ever Found. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 03 / 080331135542.htm ...

As astronomer Otto Struve wrote in 1962, “The history of the eclipsing binary Epsilon Aurigae is in many respects the history of astrophysics.” And now that history is about to get a new chapter.

Over the summer, we will have preliminary results for around 150,000 eclipsing binary light curves, and we will invest a few months to analyze and interpret these data thoroughly," Prša concluded.

NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, detected over 2,600 eclipsing binary stars during its mission. Rotating Stars are variable stars that show small light changes caused by patches of ...

"Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system" is astronomer-speak for a system with six stars all orbiting each other and all regularly eclipsing one another from the perspective of Earth — and ...