Astronomers from the San Diego State University have discovered two new circumbinary planets, Kepler 34b and Kepler 35b, which are orbiting a pair of Sun-like stars. The astronomers discovered these ...

A planet similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Star Wars protagonist Luke Skywalker, has been found by astronomers. This is only the second time a multiplanetary system with two stars at the ...

This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars. NASA If Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine, from the Star Wars franchise, were a reality, it ...

A new technique developed in part by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Nader Haghighipour has allowed astronomers to quickly detect a transiting circumbinary planet orbiting around two suns ...

Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the ...

Planets orbiting "short-period" binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars' evolution, according to new research from ...

Known as a “circumbinary” planet, TIC 172900988b’s existence has been revealed in a paper published in the Astronomical Journal by a team led by Veselin B. Kostov of the SETI Institute. Although not ...