Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers, led by astronomers at San Diego State University, detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously ...
An artist's interpretation of a pair of "Tatooine worlds" orbiting two suns. An artist's interpretation of a pair of For just the second time ever, astronomers have discovered multiple "Tatooine ...
This artist’s concept illustrates Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two ...
A new planet has been discovered in a mysterious exoplanetary system about 3,340 light-years from Earth, where two suns rise and set. The 'Kepler-47' system is the only known binary star system to ...
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 ...
The discovery of the first alien planet with two suns — like the "Star Wars" world Tatooine — residing in its parent star's habitable zone is good news for the search for life beyond Earth, scientists ...
Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team ...
Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team ...
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 ...