In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

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

SpaceX brought back to Earth on Friday the four crew members of the private polar Fram2 mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night.

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

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees compared to the orbit of its two host stars. The discovery, made using the ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

Have you ever noticed that rockets tend to launch from the east coast of the U.S.? There is actually a reason for that, and ...

This is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host stars, a pair of brown dwarfs.

SpaceX tested the Plug and Plaser device for the first time in space last year on the Polaris Dawn mission, which was most ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in ...