This work has provided the best description available so far on a binary system in formation. Models of planet formation suggest that planets form by the slow aggregation of ice and dust particles in ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Pairs of planetary-mass objects, floating freely in space, intrigue scientists with their nature and origin. With masses ...

These candidate planets, known as Jupiter-mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs), seem to orbit one another as they float freely in space unbound to any star—which counters prevailing theories of how ...

Being part of a binary system — meaning there is a second stellar companion — also makes the new exoplanet find particularly interesting, given planets that form in binary star environments ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

Do these bodies form like stars or like planets? The problem is, however, that neither origin can account for the binary nature of JuMBOs — or, in fact, the overabundance of free-floating ...

The planets follow a visible path in the sky called ... T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system known as the “Blaze Star,” is expected to become visible to the naked eye after a nova explosion.