EQ Pegasi (also known as Gliese 896) is a nearby binary system of two red dwarfs.

[4] EQ Pegasi was first noticed to be a binary star by Carl A. Wirtanen who in the course of a systematic survey of the McCormick Observatory photographic plates for M-type dwarfs, detected a companion about two magnitudes fainter at a separation of 3.5 arcseconds.

A 2021 study of nearby stars states that "the spectroscopic binarity classification [...] is almost certainly due to activity".

[15] In 2022, a Jovian planet was discovered in orbit around the system's primary star via radio astrometry.

[4] In 1998, it was the basis of a hoax, as a telecommunications company claimed it had discovered "alien" signals originating from the star.