Circumbinary Planet News Today

Astronomers recently discovered a planet which orbits two stars, meaning it would have two suns in its sky like Tatooine.

By precisely tracing a small, almost imperceptible, wobble in a nearby star’s motion through space, astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like planet orbiting that star, which is one of a binary pair.

The rare circumbinary exoplanet named Kepler 16-b has been observed by telescopes on Earth for the first time since its discovery.

An exoplanet slightly larger than Jupiter has been discovered orbiting two stars. The newly discovered circumbinary planet – which is a world that orbits two stars – has been called TIC 172900988b. The planet was found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). It is located about 824 light-years away from us in the constellation... Read more »

No ‘Star Wars’ spoiler alert should be needed to remind everyone that Tatooine is the desert planet home of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, and it’s a planet that manages to sustain life (albeit barely) while orbiting a binary star system too close for comfort. That may be true for five other binary star systems where... Read more »