Bizarre exoplanet orbits two failed stars at once

Physicists have spotted a planet in a highly unusual polar orbit around a pair of star-like bodies. The planet orbits two brown dwarves — ‘failed’ stars that never gain enough mass to spark nuclear fusion — at an almost 90° angle to the plane on which the stars are orbiting each other, crossing over both the north and south poles of the duo as it passes. Only 16 planets have ever been found orbiting two objects, and all so far circle their host pair on the same plane.