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 ...
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...
New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...