“A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit is rather incredible and exciting,” said Professor Amaury Triaud, a co-author of the study ...

The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured away.

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting." Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary ...

Of the approximately 5,800 planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - confirmed to date, only 16 are circumbinary. And until now, none of those were found to be orbiting brown dwarfs ...

The planet is orbiting two brown dwarfs, which are also known as failed stars. It’s about 120 light years away from our solar system. If you’re a "Star Wars" fan, you might be excited to learn ...