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

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints… of an alien world” on a distant planet orbiting ...

Several planets orbiting two stars at once have been discovered in the past years, but none that orbited their stars in this interesting way had been found. Star Wars fans may recognise that ...

Researchers are reporting the discovery of an exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, orbiting its host star at an angle of 90 ... strong evidence of a “polar planet” orbiting a stellar pair, as ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

The planet is orbiting two brown dwarfs, which are also known as failed stars. It’s about 120 light years away from our solar system. If you’re a "Star Wars" fan, you might be excited to learn ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a planet orbiting a pair of stars at a 90-degree angle ...

a planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around a pair of stars. When an exoplanet is found in a binary star system – which indeed exists – its orbit is generally aligned with the plane in which ...