Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.

On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) awarded the Johann Wempe Prize to Dr Sebastian Kamann from Liverpool John Moores University for his outstanding ...

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Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

The Deep Space Network enables communication with all the missions in space, from telescopes like Hubble to rovers and ...

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