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

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 then indeed have ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

Former Hampstead resident Rachel Friedman is living out a dream these days as one of the popular hosts of Dialed In, part of ...