The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

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

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

A "Star Wars" planet with an unusual orbit has been discovered 120 light years from Earth - the first-ever "polar planet" ...

Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time ...

The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed ...

When Philips launches as part of a privately funded SpaceX crew from Kennedy Space Center as early as Monday on a never-before-attempted orbit around Earth's polar regions, this first-time ...

SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set for liftoff on Monday at 9:46 p.m. ET, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch a private crew of astronauts on board a Dragon ...

After splashdown, the crew will attempt to exit the vehicle without assistance to assess their physical capabilities.

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

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