"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." ...

Of the approximately 5,800 planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - confirmed to date, only 16 are circumbinary. And until now, none of those were found to be orbiting brown dwarfs, ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among of the most famous scenes in pop culture. When Star Wars debuted in 1977, ...

Read more Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system's strangest object The two stars are brown dwarfs, which means they are both small and very dim because they can't sustain nuclear fusion and ...

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet orbiting two "failed stars" approximately 120 light years from Earth. The planet follows a peculiar, perpendicular path around a pair of brown ...

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than ... can help us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own ...

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 ...

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 ...

Furthermore, the chance of stellar bodies having a binary partner increases with mass, making a double-brown-dwarf star system pretty surprising. Around 75% of stars with masses around 10 times ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

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 ...