While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can ...
After years of observation, researchers finally understand how a pair of stars can maintain a stable orbital dance with an elusive planet. In 2004, David Ramm at the University of Canterbury in New ...
A tiny star with a giant planet is further muddling astronomers' notion of what a planet is. The planet is one of perhaps only two or three planets around other stars to be photographed directly, but ...