"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is ...

K2-18b is a little over 120 light-years from Earth — on a galactic scale, this world is practically in our backyard.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

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

Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

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

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

A new study suggests we could be a step closer to figuring out if alien life is out there, trillions of miles away from Earth ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.