This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than you ...

A binary star system caught in the earliest stages of formation is giving astronomers clues as to why solar systems that circle double stars may be altogether different than our own.

A research team has used both archival Hubble Space Telescope data and new observations to precisely measure the binary star ...

Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult, now astronomers are looking to AI to help.

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a planet that orbits in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The center of this binary system is a low-mass star—something smaller than our sun—with a brown dwarf orbiting around it.

NASA artistic image of a binary system of a red giant star and a younger companion. Blue supergiants may be formed by two stars in a binary system merging. Casey Reed, NASA ...

Astronomers: “Vampire” star stripped the atmosphere from its binary partner New data resolves debate about nature of star system HR 6819, discovered in 2020.

Astronomers have discovered an exceptionally rare system set to end in a kilonova explosion so rare we've never found one before.

Could sunset in our solar system once have looked very different? A new study suggests our sun may once have had a binary companion.

A disputed multiple-star system doesn’t have a black hole, as once reported, but is actually a missing piece in binary star evolution.