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

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

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

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

"We report the discovery of the first brown dwarf binary system with a ... separation of 0. '' 084, position angle of 295 degrees, and with contrast of 2.8 and 1.8 magnitudes in F150W and F480M ...

THE binary number system, in which all numbers are represented by 0 and 1, is the cornerstone of modern computing and digital technology. But, if its inventor had not imagined its having religious ...

The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a ...

"We combined new and archival Chandra and HST data for a study of the short-period, eclipsing X-ray binary ... system—approximately 2.0. This finding further confirms the HMXB nature of NGC 4214 ...

Nowadays, binary numbers — a base-2 system where each position is typically written as a 0 or 1 — form the backbone of all modern computing systems. But new evidence suggests some remote ...

1% the distance between Earth and the sun. Scientists have discovered a record-breaking binary star system consisting of two ultracool dwarf stars so close to each other that they complete an ...