A distant ocean-covered world, teeming with life. That's the most likely explanation for a new discovery made by scientists ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Scientists have detected possible biosignature gases in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b -- gases produced only by life on ...

Let’s talk space rocks, folks. The placement and movement of planets and constellations in the birth chart offer insights ...

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is ...

That changed in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union declared that the faraway orb was a dwarf planet due to its location, known as the Trans-Neptunian region, according to NASA.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, like our own solar system. A few dozen orbit binary stars, dancing delicately ...

In its second season, 'Andor' is setting the record straight about an infamous atrocity in the world of 'Star Wars.' ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...