These brown dwarfs, intermediate objects between giant planets and stars, form a rare binary system. The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, was detected through the gravitational disturbances it induces ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

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.

A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two ...

A few Mars missions, including the Mars reconnaissance orbiter and the Mars Odyssey orbiter, have used aerobraking to reach their target orbits around the red planet. For interplanetary missions ...

It's 244 light-years away from the Earth -- for comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is only five and a half light-hours from us. The planet orbits a ... in the results section of the paper, and ...

In 2020, researchers discovered the first exoplanet near a white dwarf. This planet has turned out to be the coldest known to date. An international team led by astronomer Mary Anne Limbach ...

Astronomers believe that our solar system may still hold surprises ... and Chadwick Trujillo noticed unusual patterns in the orbits of several objects beyond Neptune. These icy bodies in the ...

A few Mars missions, including the Mars reconnaissance orbiter and the Mars Odyssey orbiter, have used aerobraking to reach their target orbits around the red planet. For interplanetary missions like ...

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