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

But for sheer exoticism, it would be hard to top a newly described circumbinary planet located relatively nearby in our Milky Way galaxy. It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs - celestial ...

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

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

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

But for sheer exoticism, it would be hard to top a newly described circumbinary planet located relatively nearby in our Milky Way galaxy. It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs – celestial ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

"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." ...

Researchers say they found a curious dot on infrared images taken 23 years apart that seems to be moving in a manner ...

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. The newly discovered ...