The Fram2 mission was funded by Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur and adventurer from Malta. Wang flew alongside ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Fram2's orbit flew Dragon on a north-to-south trajectory in low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

"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." ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

However, 2M1510(AB)b is the first bonafide planet to be found on a circumbinary polar orbit. "Our expectation is that the planet would have formed in an inclined disc, such as those observed by ...

NASA's SPHEREx orbital observatory has begun imaging hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D, tracking their changing ...

Animation showing the polar orbit of the exoplanet around the two brown dwarfs. A polar orbit is a trajectory where an object, such as a planet, revolves around another by passing over its poles.

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