WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an object that is orbiting a star at a distance, they would often assume it ...

Astronomers at The University of New Mexico have published new research confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, there are strange and mysterious objects that refuse to fit neatly into our understanding of space. These peculiar objects, often hovering between the size of ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.

NEW YORK (AP) - A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an ...

A giant planet in the HR 8799 system orbits six times faster than its neighbor, reigniting the mystery surrounding its origin ...

Classifying things in science is always fraught with the potential for uncertainty. Even things that are obviously different, ...

As part of the 13th annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, Gibor Basri, Ph.D.,, of the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss Brown Dwarfs & Free-Floating Planets: When You're Just ...

Right angle Illustration of 2M1510 showing the orbits of the two brown dwarfs (in blue) and that of the planet (in orange). (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) The first strong evidence for an exoplanet with an ...

Caltech professor Mike Brown (L) and assistant professor Konstanin Batygin have been working together to investigate distant objects in our solar system for more than a year and a half. The two ...