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

The first of several Orbiting Astronomical Observatories will be launched next year The best view man has ever had of the universe should be obtained from telescopes placed above the atmosphere.

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

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

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

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