Articles for tag: Astronomy news, astrophysics, Binary Stars, Planet Hunting, Space Science

591 Binary Stars Could Reveal Dozens of New Exoplanets, Scientists Say

Suhail Ahmed

Binary stars can be chaotic places for planets, and for years that chaos pushed many searches toward calmer, single suns. Now a team has flipped the script. By singling out 591 “edge-on” twin-star systems identified with Gaia data, researchers argue that these complicated neighborhoods may actually be the easiest places to find new worlds. Their ...

Orion Nebula

Did James Webb Spot Ghosts in Space? New Simulations Suggest These Mysterious ‘Rogue’ Objects May Not Exist

Jan Otte

Astronomers were confused when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first saw strange, free-floating pairs of Jupiter-sized objects in 2023. These strange cosmic objects, called “JuMBOs” (Jupiter-mass binary objects), seemed to go against the usual ideas about how planets form because they didn’t have a parent star and were drifting through space in tight gravitational ...