This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than you ...

The center of this binary system is a low-mass star—something smaller than our sun—with a brown dwarf orbiting around it.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.

For many years, binary star research has been as neglected as an old Tamagotchi. But now, the Gaia space telescope is leading a resurgence in interest in binary star systems.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found evidence suggesting that a hidden supermassive black hole influenced the merger of two black hol ...