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

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

Q: Why do the planets all orbit the Sun in the same plane? —Randi Eldevik | Stillwater, Oklahoma Because of the way the Sun formed, explains David DeVorkin, a senior curator in the space history ...

The nature of this planet's orbit also is unique. Rather than following the plane established for the orbit of the two brown ...

This is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host stars, a pair of brown dwarfs.

The U.S. Space Force's robotic space plane X-37B returned to Earth has returned to Earth after spending more than 434 days in orbit on a classified mission. This was the seventh mission for the X ...

The long-terms stays in orbit also don't appear to be in keeping ... years that the true purpose of the X-37B is to act as a spy plane. As Tom Burghardt commented in his 2010 article, "The ...