A "Star Wars" planet with an unusual orbit has been discovered 120 light years from Earth - the first-ever "polar planet" ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Cover Images Astronomers have found a ‘Star Wars’ planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

Videos of a ball of fire from space shooting over Mexico and dissolving in a burst of light struck awe across the capital ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Astronomers have identified the first confirmed exoplanet that orbits its stars at a 90-degree angle, known as a polar orbit.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...