Using ALMA, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary, finding chaos that ...

A stunning discovery reveals two stars orbiting each other near the galactic center's supermassive black hole. The survival ...

Binary systems are common, and it is assumed that they mostly form together. Now two have been discovered that have only just ...

While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them—they ...

Astronomers observed two massive protostars forming a binary system just 60 years ago, revealing they originated from ...

"The binary fraction measured for the SMC field in this work is comparable to that observed in galactic open clusters of similar ages," the authors write. "Furthermore, our result for the SMC field is ...