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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have for the first time discovered two alien planets whirling around a pair of stars: a complete solar system with twin suns just like Luke Skywalker's fictional home world Tatooine. Most ...

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 ...

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 ...