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

Researchers believe that pair 2M1510 is orbited by a planet in a "polar", or perpendicular, orbit. This is the ... hope it's real.” Planets around binary stars were first predicted by science ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere some time this month. The Soviet Union launched ...

Binary star system—Two stars orbiting their ... Comet—A small solar system body made of ice and dust that moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun. A typical comet has a solid nucleus ...

An exciting first in planetary discoveries!

Supermoons occur when the moon reaches its closest point, or perigee, along its elliptical orbit around Earth, according to NASA. When this happens, the moon appears brighter and larger in the sky.

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 ...