Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to make this exciting discovery. Several ...

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

The planet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, orbits around this pair. Another brown dwarf is present in this system, but is too far away — about 250 times the distance between Earth and the sun — for its ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

Dubbed BD+05 4868 Ab, the planet zips tightly around its star, losing the material equivalent of one Mount Everest with every 30.5-hour orbit.Astronomers located the failing world using NASA’s ...

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles. The brown dwarf pair was first ...

We had hints that planets on perpendicular orbits around binary stars could exist ... but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit is rather incredible and exciting.

which are too small to be considered planets. The best known of these is Pluto, an ice dwarf that orbits far from the Sun, beyond the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Pluto was previously classed as ...

Researchers have only observed one eclipsing brown dwarf binary ... involving a planet-sized object orbiting the two stars, tracing out an ellipse perpendicular to the stars’ orbits.