In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

An exciting first in planetary discoveries!

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

An illustration of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host stars, a pair of brown dwarfs. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Scientists have found evidence of a Tatooine-like exoplanet that ...

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 compared to the orbit of its two host stars. The discovery, made using the ...