To us, with our one lonely star, binary systems seem foreign and strange—like rare diamonds in the sky. But in reality, a vast number of solar systems contain more than one sun. Imagining what the sky ...

"Rogue planets are not alone; we should not let them be orphans but consider them members of our planetary family." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The giants might've been kicked out, left to live a rogue lifestyle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A nearby binary star system ...

This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever ...

Artist’s interpretation of HD 98800, a quadruple-star system located 150 light-years away in the constellation TW Hydrae. Bin Liu and Alejandro Vigna-Gomez suggest that the more massive tertiary-star ...

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered an oddly tilted planet-forming disk within a double binary star system, a configuration that up until this point only existed in theory. Quadruple ...