The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...

Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

NASA's TESS mission has spotted 27 candidate exoplanets in eclipsing binary systems. Variations in the mutual eclipses of the ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

For years, scientists have searched for the sources of the most energetic particles in ...

New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...

Long after it was theorized to exist, a new class of stars has been discovered by astronomers. Using the Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory in California and data from multiple astronomical surveys, ...

Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the ...

Binary (or double) stars may in fact hinder life as we know it, new observations by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, reveal. Details of the millimeter ...