Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

The binary star system discovered in the new study is ... searching a larger volume of our galaxy, to encounter them." Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering?

"When a star encounters a black hole binary, the complex dynamics of this three-body interaction can toss that star right out of the globular cluster," Kyle Kremer, an assistant professor at UC ...

The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision ... searching a larger volume of our galaxy, to encounter them.” [ Related: The hunt for the first stars ...

A planet twice the size of Jupiter has been confirmed in Nu Octantis. Its retrograde orbit and origin raise new questions about planetary formation in binary systems.

A movie of the explosion of a double white dwarf binary star system. The simulation was ... searching a larger volume of our galaxy, to encounter them. "Finding this system is not the end of ...

Binary star systems are pairs of stars held together by gravity, orbiting a common center of mass. More than half of all ...