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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 ...
A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...
Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have provided the strongest indications yet of potential life beyond our solar ...
Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...
The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...
Although Barnard’s Star is a small, dim red dwarf only a little bigger than Jupiter and thus much less bright than our Sun, the four planets all orbit so closely that they are within the inner b ...
Detecting such small planets isn’t easy– their signals are ... As per the report, all four orbit their red dwarf star at very short distances– the closest circles the star in just over ...