An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, ...

Astronomers have analyzed the data from long-term radio observations of a binary pulsar known as PSR J1906+0746. Results of ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

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 ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

The Kuiper Belt object Altjira was thought to be a binary, but closer analysis suggests that it is highly likely to be a triple system This raises the question of the three-body problem; if Altjira ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth. Of the more ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

Over the past six decades, scientists have discovered two dozen stellar-mass black holes using X-ray methods. The mass distribution of these black holes, mainly between five to 25 solar masses, shows ...

Moons in close binary solar systems have a better chance of hosting life than those in single-star systems, new research has shown. Top image: Avatar Binary stars dampen each other’s solar radiation ...