Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

These odd binary systems go through multiple phases. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have identified a new kind of ...

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.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

A simulation of a possible explanation for an L subdwarf named CWISE J124909+362116.0's speed shows it as a part of a white dwarf binary pair that ended with the white dwarf exploding into a supernova ...