A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

A stellar system has just revealed a planet with unprecedented characteristics. Its right-angle orbit around two stars is a first. Configuration of 2M1510 and naming convention for the different ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Mysterious, spherical' object detected by NASA is travelling at one million miles per hour. There is still no identification ...

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 ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other ...