Artist's impression shows the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs ...

It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs - celestial objects too small to be a star and too big to be a planet. And its orbit is unlike any other such planet on record. Sign up here.

What do scientists know about the first circumbinary planet to circle brown dwarfs instead of stars? In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two ...

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This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas ...

The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, orbits a pair of young brown dwarfs—objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. Only the second pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs ...