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

"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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...