In a real-life twist on Star Wars' Tatooine—a harsh desert planet with twin suns and a criminal underbelly—astronomers have found a bizarre new world that orbits two stars at a perfect right angle.
The vast majority of exoplanets that have been discovered are within star systems broadly similar to our solar system: one (or sometimes two or more) stars at the center, with planets orbiting at a ...
An ALMA telescope image shows two potential exoplanet bodies that appear to orbit a star on the same orbit. Credit: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / Balsalobre-Ruza et al. Astronomers think they've found ...
"Co-orbital planets are 'fossils' of the planetary formation processes; at present, they are like unicorns." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
Astronomers say it's the first piece of evidence to suggest that a pair of planets can share the same orbit. Reading time 3 minutes A group of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert was aimed at a ...
In our Solar System, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation. Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets all orbit in the same direction. This invariable plane, as ...
I've been wondering this for quite a long time. Why do the planets of our solar system all orbit the sun in (more or less) a single plane? Is it a random coincidence, or are there physical forces that ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in a solar system unlike our own, astronomers announced on Tuesday (June 10).
A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 OF201, ...
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