Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

Astronomers don’t have to work hard to find binary stars in the Milky Way. They’re common, even abundant. For a long time, ...

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

'Binary stars were once seen as hostile environments for planet formation. What we're finding is that they can actually be ...

For a long time, scientists believed that having two stars in one system would make it difficult for planets to form. The ...

A string of small gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central black hole has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, new observations ...