There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars where Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker watches a double sunset above Tatooine, ...
Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research from astrophysicists at the University of Lancashire. Binary stars are common ...
An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...
New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than ...
Binary star systems may help giant planets form more easily by triggering planet formation far from their stars.
Washington DC — New theoretical work shows that gas-giant planet formation can occur around binary stars in much the same way that it occurs around single stars like the Sun. The work is presented ...
Long after it was theorized to exist, a new class of stars has been discovered by astronomers. Using the Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory in California and data from multiple astronomical surveys, ...
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