Scientists from several institutions, including the University of Chicago, discovered a lemon-shaped planet with an ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

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.

Star Wars fans will be well aware of Tatooine, the desolate, distant world inhabited by human settlers. In the films Tatooine ...

It is naturally found in low concentrations on our planet, but the recent discovery of D₂O in space has helped astronomers to ...

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...