In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

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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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 ...

A team of astronomers led by a British student found traces of the first-ever-discovered planet moving in a polar orbit ...

In the "Star Wars" universe, Luke Skywalker famously came from the planet of Tatooine, which had two suns and double sunsets. Tatooine is in a circumbinary orbit, which means that it doesn't orbit ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle ... Most of the 16 known circumbinary planets—that is, planets that orbit two stars—follow this coplanar rule. These were largely found by NASA ...