The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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It may not be anything like Tatooine of Star Wars, but this discovery is still incredible. We’ve found a frozen, rocky planet orbiting one of its two parent binary stars in a stable Earth-like orbit.

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 ...

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 ...

Using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar (MSPs) at a distance of some 7,000 light years away. The newfound pulsar, which received ...

While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course of several years, they came across a rather peculiar finding in a binary ...