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

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

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 that strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Cover Images Astronomers have found a ‘Star Wars’ planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong ...