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

Hubble’s three-and-a-half-decade lifetime has allowed astronomers to observe cosmic objects over extended periods to see how ...

The first UV satellite, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO 2) launched in 1968, shortly before the highly anticipated launch of Apollo 8 (the first crewed mission to the moon).

With the NASA Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (AOA-2, nicknamed Stargazer) space observatory that launched in 1968 the feasibility of such an observation platform was confirmed. Where the ...

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 ... a 27-foot diameter telescope at the ...

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to make this exciting discovery. Several ...