Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

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Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

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