Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with other telescopes on the ground and in space, have discovered a new type of exotic binary star In the system AR Scorpii a rapidly ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of binary star, that was missing for decades, which represents a "missing link" in the evolution of so-called extremely low mass (ELM) white dwarfs. When 97 ...

Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...

Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have observed a new type of binary star that has long been theorized to exist. The discovery finally confirms how a rare type of star ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...