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

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

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The main method used to find each world is shown as one of seven colors. For example ... search on a small patch of the sky and used the transit method of exoplanet detection on 150,000 stars.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other ... to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.

The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets ... thumb in front of the sun when you look at the sky,” Balmer said. This setting, similar to a solar ...