A planet twice the size of Jupiter has been confirmed in Nu Octantis. Its retrograde orbit and origin raise new questions about planetary formation in binary systems.

When Mercury trines Pluto retrograde on May 27, you could have an unmistakable sense of “I can’t unsee this,” where you ...

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star ...

Artist's impression of the nu Octantis system. Image generated by ChatGPT-4.0 and further modified by Trifon TRIFONOV using the GNU Image Manipulation ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable planetary system that challenges long-held assumptions about where planets can ...

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

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

Dr. Trifon Trifonov, head of the Bulgarian exoplanet research group within the “EXO-RESTART” project at Sofia University’s ...

Until not many years ago, scientists didn’t think planets could exist around a pair of stars. The complications from the ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our solar system.

But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction.Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able ...