If you thought planets only circled stars in neat, flat disks, think again. Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for a bizarre kind of planet — one that loops around not just one, but two ...

The 2M1510 system, with the brown dwarf binary (A and B) and a third brown dwarf (C) orbiting both of them. (Image credit: DESI Legacy Survey/D. Lang (Perimeter Institute)) But they began to ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting." Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary ...

However, the exoplanet 2M1510’s binary system includes a slightly different pairing: brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are cosmic oddballs—while too large to classify as planets, they’re also too ...

It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs - celestial objects too small to be a star and too big to be a planet. And its orbit is unlike any other such planet on record. Sign up here.

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an ...

Here’s how and what it’ll cost Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual path around two brown dwarfs, whipping around at a right angle. Brown dwarfs are ...