A physics experiment first conceived in the 18th century may become one of the ...

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

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

Using the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian astronomers have conducted optical photometric observations of ...

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 ...

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...

In a recent study accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics, a team of researchers use a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes to examine a binary star system (two stars orbiting each other) in ...

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

We may be looking for aliens in all the wrong places. Binary and multi-star systems, usually composed of two or more stars that either circle each other or a fixed point, may hold the key to finding ...