How circumbinary planets form revealed

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:32

Researchers using Kepler space telescope have discovered how circumbinary planets form.

How binary stars are formed

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 10:39

Scientists, using the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars, which has now provided strong support for one of the competing explanations for how double-star systems form.

New astronomical software system helps unveil two celestial explosions

Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 12:26

A team of researchers have used a novel astronomical survey software system-the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) -- to link a new stripped-envelope supernova.

Wide binary stars wreak havoc in planetary systems

Last Updated: Monday, January 7, 2013, 15:26

: Planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits around them, astrophysicists have found.