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 ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

A new "Tatooine-like" planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars ... less likely to happen if they circled each other on their own. The research was published in the journal ...

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars ... likely to happen if they circled each other on their own. The research was published in the journal ...