Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

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

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

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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

Researchers at MIT have found an exoplanet that is "crumbling to pieces," leaving a long, comet-like tail in its wake. Dubbed ...

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No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

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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 ...