This mixed-up star system has an unusual set of orbits There is a star system 146 light years from Earth that is quite strange. At its centre is a set of binary stars , and around that loops ...

This means that, in the search for habitable exoplanets, double star systems are not off the table. “Our study confirms that even binary star systems with giant planets are hot 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 ...

The two co-orbiting brown dwarfs drift between the stars 95 light-years from Earth, and form the lightest binary system ever found By Charles Q. Choi & SPACE.com ...

A newly compiled 3D map has revealed more than 1 million binary star pairs located within 3,000 light years of Earth, highlighting the ubiquity of these ...

Pairs of stars with separations five hundred times the size of the solar system could be triplets in disguise. New research indicates that many of the known wide binaries (double star systems) may ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel and undergoes a core ...

Using ALMA, astronomers have taken a new, detailed look at the very early stages of planet formation around a binary star. Embedded in the outer reaches of a double star's protoplanetary disk, the ...

Binary stars are gravitationally bound together in the same system. Double stars are stars that appear to be near each other in the sky, but if they’re gravitationally bound together we call ...