"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary system. Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that never had enough mass to ...

In particular, binary pairs of objects there are useful as indicators since their existence today paints a picture of how energetic or violent the evolution of the solar system was in its early ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

Being part of a binary system — meaning there is a second ... reveal new clues as to why we don't have one in our own solar system. Their findings were accepted for publication on Feb. 23 ...

A few hundred binary systems composed of two white dwarf stars are known. These two orbit closest to each other of any of ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we ... New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies ...

Scientists have detected a potential Tatooine-like exoplanet orbiting a pair of brown dwarfs, located approximately 120 light ...

Exoplanet orbits binary stars at a 90-degree tilt Discovered using ALMA and VLT telescopes Orbit challenges planetary formation theories ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded ... Two of the stars are Sun-like ones locked in a binary dance, while another star, a dim red dwarf ...