Astronomers have captured a rare and remarkably close view of a giant planet circling a pair of tightly bound suns, offering one of the clearest real-world echoes yet of the fictional world Tatooine.
Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...
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.
Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...
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 ...