When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a particular class of cosmic ...
When massive stars die, they unleash some of the most powerful explosions in the universe. Yet not all supernovae are created ...
A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...
Binary asteroid systems are widespread throughout our inner solar system. For decades, the standard paradigm held that many of them form when a rapidly spinning primary asteroid casts off material, ...