A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star ...

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

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

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

One example of this is when there is a binary star system that is orbited by a large planet that travels along a polar path ...

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

A team of researchers have discovered a binary system in which a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star ...

A planet twice the size of Jupiter has been confirmed in Nu Octantis. Its retrograde orbit and origin raise new questions about planetary formation in binary systems.

A team of Chinese astronomers has discovered a binary star system, comprising a millisecond pulsar and a helium-rich ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: ...