- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 4th, 2014
New Planet Is Twice as Plump as Earth, Orbits Star in Binary System
The planet sits at a distance of about 3,000 light-years from Earth, is quite cold
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 15th, 2014
LIGO to Hunt for Gravitational Waves Using Lasers
The experiment is due to come online sometime next year
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 17th, 2014
Supermassive Black Hole Found Ripping a Star to Shreds
Multiple telescopes were used to assess this peculiar system
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 27th, 2014
How Solitary Millisecond Pulsars Form – Video
New hypothesis says they consume other stars when in binary systems
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 12th, 2013
Cosmic Fast Radio Bursts May Be Easier to Explain than Anticipated
Astronomers propose new explanation for these mysterious phenomena
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 7th, 2013
Impossible Exoplanet Defies Theories on Planet Formation
The world exhibits some bizarre characteristics that cannot be explained
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 5th, 2013
Astronomers Find Youngest X-ray Binary System to Date
The object appeared when the pharaohs still ruled Egypt
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 27th, 2013
First Photo of a Planet Circling Two Stars
The planet is a gas giant, 12 to 14 times larger than Jupiter
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 20th, 2013
Fastest Star Ever Found Circles a Black Hole in just 2.4 Hours
The binary system, a black hole and a red dwarf, is the fastest ever discovered
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- January 25th, 2013
Strange Backwards Exoplanet Explained by New Companion Star and Planet
Astronomers realized that it's part of a binary system and found another exoplanet
- Space
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 15th, 2012
Exoplanet with Four Suns Found
The planet was discovered by amateur astronomers and is the first of its kind
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- August 29th, 2012
White Dwarfs Produce Gravitational Waves
They are apparently capable of wrapping space around them
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- July 25th, 2012
Four “Impossible” Binary Systems Found in the Galaxy
The stars in these pairs orbit extremely close to each other
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- July 6th, 2012
Closest-Orbiting Binary System Detected
Its two stars are much closer to each other than thought possible
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 25th, 2012
How Eta Carinae Will Look Like When It Explodes
The star is one of the largest ever discovered in space
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 12th, 2012
Planets Around Binary Stars Are Common
Millions of such systems possibly exist in the galaxy
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 1st, 2011
Flipping Exoplanets Found in Distant Binary System
One of the giant worlds forces four others to do the same