In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above 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 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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

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 ...

Astronomers, including Triaud, have made strides in the last few years in detecting planets in multi-star systems by ...

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 that strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

This means one of the brown dwarfs eclipses the other, as seen from our vantage point on Earth. "A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit ...

it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth’s polar regions from space. Fram2 Cmdr. Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, vehicle commander; Rabea Rogge ...