Ferris State University student researcher Francisco Vasquez worked with his professor, Dr. Dinesh Shetty, to create new orbital models for binary star systems, four of which have been adopted by the ...

Ferris State University physics and astronomy professor Dinesh Shetty and student Francisco Vasquez have reached a milestone ...

Abstract: Binary stars range from solar systems with twin Suns to the most extreme environments in the universe: accreting black holes and neutron stars. Astronomers use binaries to study fundamental ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Andrej Prša receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar ...