The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary system. Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that never had enough mass to ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...