New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer ...

How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Astronomers have investigated a puzzling binary star system in which two stars that may have formed together now show ...

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 ...