Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Exoplanet orbits binary stars at a 90-degree tilt Discovered using ALMA and VLT telescopes Orbit challenges planetary formation theories ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary system. Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that never had enough mass to ...

In a discovery that sounds like it’s straight out of science fiction, astronomers have found a planet orbiting two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This is the first confirmed evidence of a planet ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes nearer the ...