A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

The planet, informally dubbed 2M1510, traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown dwarfs.

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It’s so…black! You can hardly make out its shape…light just seems to fall into it! That is the word of David Kipping of the ...

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 ...

Before the recent discovery, scientists had only theorized the existence of such a system with a circumbinary planet on a perpendicular orbit—also called a polar orbit—based on clues such as ...

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 ...

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. — Reuters/File ...