WASHINGTON: The young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine in a ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

Billionaire Jeff Bezos takes questions in front of Blue Origin's mock-up for the New Shepard spaceship's crew capsule in 2017 ...

Scientists reckon there are 130 million pieces of space junk in the sky, all hurtling through space at 25 times the speed of sound. They could put our whole space programme at risk.

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

The brown dwarfs weigh 35 times the mass of Jupiter, so the candidate would be a gas giant planet. A smaller planet might instead have migrated there from a slightly misaligned orbit to the polar ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a potential planet orbiting two brown dwarfs 120 light-years away, resembling Star Wars’ ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.