Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, like our own solar system. A few dozen orbit binary stars, dancing delicately ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...

It's not the first time researchers have found a planet like the one in Star Wars, but this alien world has a particularly ...

The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with ...

We are already familiar with exoplanets orbiting two stars. But 2M1510 (AB) b is a novelty: its orbit is perpendicular to that of its stars.

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest astronaut, is set to return from space on April 19, his 70th birthday. Mr Pettit, currently aboard ...

For this all-citizen and private polar launch, it will be the first time that the quartet will be in space, and it will be the first time any human has done a 90-degree circularized orbit ...

The four novice space explorers will climb into SpaceX’s Dragon capsule named Resilience and become the first humans to do a 90-degree circularized orbit, or polar orbit. He said this will be a ...