The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

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

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

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

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Co-author Professor Triaud, from the University of Birmingham, commented, "A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit is rather incredible and ...

Indie animation producer and distributor GKIDS and Japanese stop-motion animation studio Dwarf announced that they will jointly develop a new animated film based on the original autobiographical ...

Astronomers may think they know what is normal for stars and planets, “but the universe ... Researchers have only observed one eclipsing brown dwarf binary before. When Triaud and his colleagues ...

Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for ...