In this process, the gravitational pull of a second star in a binary system slowly disturbs the orbits of planets around the ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

A good columnist is never unintentionally tedious, but this week’s effort is about obsolete telephone directories, binary counter overflow, and the alternating current waveform. The boredom is the ...

Scientists see the potential in using ice for long term data storage. We could store information in ice for thousands of ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours. This type of observation is very rare and could shed new light on how binary ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, ...

More information: Ho Wan Cheng et al, A retrograde planet in a tight binary star system with a white dwarf, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09006-x Kendall Sullivan, Dying stars give a ...

The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long theorized—but rarely seen—cosmic process called common envelope evolution. Binary star systems, or pairs of stars that orbit ...

The department believes that the new system, which categorises institutions simply as "Accredited" or "Not Accredited," will encourage wider participation. "Binary accreditation will motivate more ...

The department believes that the new system, which categorises institutions simply as "Accredited" or "Not Accredited," will encourage wider participation. "Binary accreditation will motivate more ...