When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since ...

SpaceX has successfully launched 25 Starlink satellites into polar orbit, marking another step in the expansion of its global satellite internet ...

The mission, designated Starlink 17-20, deployed the satellites into a polar low Earth orbit, News.Az reports, citing foreign ...

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.

At the end of last month, SpaceX conducted the first-ever polar-orbit human spaceflight mission, and it’s just shared some stunning footage (below) that was captured during the epic voyage. Views from ...

In 2018, astronomers discovered a pair of brown dwarf stars orbiting each other in a rare system known as an eclipsing binary. Further observations show that the binary, named 2M1510, is even more ...

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes nearer the ...