Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

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

How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a pair of brown dwarf stars orbiting each other in a rare system known as an eclipsing binary. Further observations show that the binary, named 2M1510, is even more ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes nearer the ...

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