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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...

A global team of researchers led by Indian scientists has made a world-first discovery of a blue straggler star hosting a brown dwarf companion in an extraordinarily compact binary system, where a ...

Simulations show magnetic fields can remove angular momentum from forming protostars, helping binary star systems form within ...