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Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

In December 2017, the Cadi Ayyad University Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey discovered a space object dubbed 2017 YES. Not much was known about the object at that time, but thanks to some of the world's ...

The universe is populated with stars that live in pairs, and these systems could mean double trouble for scientists wanting to find Earth-like planets. A team led by Katie Lester, a postdoctoral ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

Voyager 1, located 15.1 billion miles from Earth, is transmitting anomalous, repeating binary data from its flight data system (FDS). NASA's attempts to resolve the issue, including a system reboot, ...

Scientists have discovered a new binary asteroid near Earth, one of just four equal mass binary asteroid pairs known to exist. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Researchers discovered a near-Earth asteroid in December 2017 that would soon make its closest approach to Earth for the next 170 years. Observations during its fly-by revealed it to be something more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Scientists researching nine binary star systems—like our ...