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

"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.

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 sometimes called failed stars because ...

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 sometimes called failed stars because ...

An artist's impression shows the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. — Reuters/File ...

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 ...