It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

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

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have provided the strongest indications yet of potential life beyond our solar ...

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

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.

Scientists find Tatooine-like planet with a highly unusual orbit - The planet may be orbiting two brown dwarfs, or ‘failed ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...