NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

"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 found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take ...

celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. (M. Kornmesser/ESO via AP) This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an ...

Since astronomers started discovering extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," in the mid-1990s, worlds orbiting other stars have demonstrated that, compared to our somewhat mundane solar system ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Northern lights forecast in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine Blue ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...