General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems ...

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

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...