This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than you ...

The center of this binary system is a low-mass star—something smaller than our sun—with a brown dwarf orbiting around it.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time ...

For many years, binary star research has been as neglected as an old Tamagotchi. But now, the Gaia space telescope is leading a resurgence in interest in binary star systems.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found evidence suggesting that a hidden supermassive black hole influenced the merger of two black hol ...

Massive stars like these are also key players in the cosmic drama of gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time first ...