It has two digits — 0 and 1 — and when it passes 1, it has to add 1 to the front and cycle back through. In other words, as strange as it may seem, one is 1, and two is 10. Using binary, this ...

Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned ...

Unlike our everyday counting system that uses tens, binary uses just two numbers, 0 and 1. Learn more with BBC Bitesize. Suitable for KS3 students.

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

Rotating the digits 90º clockwise gives us (from left to right) the decimal numbers 0-15 in binary notation, leading Bouvet to suggest that the hexagrams might actually be nothing more than Leibniz’s ...

The mass ratio for the system was determined to be 0.76. According to the paper, the primary and secondary stars have effective temperatures at a level of 44,000 and 48,000 K, respectively.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.

Binary star system detected near Sagittarius A*. Binary stars often appear as a single object in the night sky to the naked eye, but can often be detected with telescopes and the data they provide.