For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star ...

Binary star systems are pairs of stars held together by gravity, orbiting a common center of mass. More than half of all ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

It's always better to have a wider sample size. Returning to the binary star system we're looking at with Curiel's 3D diagram, this particular pair, called GJ 896AD, is importantly made up of two ...

Astronomers from the Czech Republic and Argentina have employed the Gemini South telescope to observe a yellow supergiant star designated HD 144812. The observations found that HD 144812 is a rare ...

"If there are planets orbiting around a binary, we call it a 'circumbinary planetary system.'" While we know that planet formation is a byproduct of star formation, we still don’t know the ...