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

In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary system. Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that never had enough mass to ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Proof of this is the recent discovery made by astronomers at the University of North Carolina. They chanced upon a very large planet orbiting a dwarf star. The astounding fact is the planet’s young ...

Imagine standing on the surface of Earth, feeling the wind on your face and watching clouds drift across the sky. Have you ...

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 ...

Scientists think one possibility is that the auroras are driven by an orbiting planet or moon interacting with the brown dwarf’s intense magnetic field. A Universe Full of Strange Worlds The discovery ...

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 ...

Now, a team of researchers believe they've found a 17th — and it's the strangest yet. The planet, according to a study published in Science Advances, orbits its two tiny suns in an unusual way.