Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Our life ...

In the last two years, astronomers discovered several exoplanets in binary systems: two stars locked in mutual orbit. These systems come in several types, with the planet orbiting one or both stars.

The formulation of the binary number system essentially laid the groundwork for digital circuitry, computers, and the field of computer science, as we know it in today’s technologically-advanced world ...

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...

M33 X-7 contains a massive black hole orbiting a large star in a surprisingly close orbit. The star is dimmer than expected due to its rapid mass gain and viewing angle. A new model explains the ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

This artist’s concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. NASA/JPL-Caltech If you’ve ever dreamed of living on an alien world with two suns, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Binary, or base two, is the number system that computer systems use, as opposed to the decimal, or ...

The possible existence of Earth-like binary planets is being described today at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Tucson, AZ. Two bodies, each of mass ...