A team of astronomers has found the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. This discovery shows that planetary systems can form and survive ...
Imagine a world with two different Suns in the sky, similar to Luke Skywalker’s home desert planet Tatooine in “Star Wars.” Such a world exists, as NASA announced in September 2011. But now, NASA has ...
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the ...