Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were never used in space.

Most space games allow players to explore alien planets, and the more ambitious titles even let you traverse through a galaxy's worth of procedurally generated star ... and outer space is ...

open image in gallery NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ... started to sort of smear around the star.” The planet would have blasted gas away from the outer layers of the star.