Researchers believe that pair 2M1510 is orbited by a planet in a "polar", or perpendicular, orbit. This is the first time we've seen strong evidence for a stellar pair being orbited by a polar planet.

Researchers believe that pair 2M1510 is orbited by a planet in a "polar", or perpendicular, orbit. This is the first time we've seen strong evidence for a stellar pair being orbited by a polar planet.

Known as a polar orbit, this is the first time a planet has been observed orbiting two stars in this way. This is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around ...

“A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit is rather incredible and exciting,” Amaury Triaud, a co-author of the study and an astronomer ...

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth. SpaceX's private Fram2 mission splashed down today (April 4) at 12:18 p.m. ET (1618 GMT), softly ...

A diagrammatic view schematic of the 2M1510 system, with two brown dwarfs in a binary system, with a circumbinary planet moving around them both in a polar orbit misaligned by 90 degrees. (Image ...

At the end of last month, SpaceX conducted the first-ever polar-orbit human spaceflight mission, and it’s just shared some stunning footage (below) that was captured during the epic voyage ...

The first astronaut crew to fly directly over Earth’s poles splashed down safely on Friday after nearly four days on orbit.. Civilian astronauts Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge, and ...

The four astronauts will spend three to five days on board SpaceX’s Dragon crew spacecraft, gazing down from a polar orbit at an inclination of about 60 to 90 degrees to the equator.