Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth. Of the more ...

WARWICK, England — Just 160 light years from Earth, two dead stars are dancing toward destruction. These white dwarfs, the collapsed remains of once-ordinary stars like our Sun, have grown so massive ...

The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view. However, Cheng and colleagues observe ...

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The most compact known example of a 3+1-type quadruple star system, where a star orbits a triple star system, is presented in Nature Communications. The system, which occupies a similar area as ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called Fomalhaut. The events, detected in 2004 and 2023, represent the first collisions between large objects ...