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.

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

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 ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems ...

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One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

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

ESPN analyst Greg McElroy evaluates the Clemson Tigers, Dabo Swinney and Christopher Vizzina as they navigate the transfer portal era.

With possible applications in information encryption and adaptive camouflage, the material is a programmable hydrogel film, the appearance, texture and mechanical response of whic ...