NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

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

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

Scientists have detected what they say is the strongest evidence yet that life may exist beyond Earth. A Cambridge University ...

Scientists find Star Wars-like planet with a highly unusual orbit - The planet may be orbiting two brown dwarfs, or ‘failed ...

A giant planet located 124 light years from Earth may be showing the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar ...

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is ...

In a discovery that sounds like it’s straight out of science fiction, astronomers have found a planet orbiting two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This is the first confirmed evidence of a 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 time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...