Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about ...

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

Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

The new planet's odd orbit sets it apart ... how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own, said study author Thomas Baycroft with the University of ...