In a surprising twist to our understanding of exoplanetary systems, astronomers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine.

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. A ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has just confirmed the existence of a space oddity that previously existed only in legend (and theory): a planet that orbits two stars rather than one. The system, known ...

Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field. In a paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, astronomer Joel Kastner and ...

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...

While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can ...

Chinese video of double sun goes viral. March 7, 2011 — -- Early in the original "Star Wars" movie, there is a scene in which the restless young Luke Skywalker looks out at the two suns setting ...

A Tatooine-like world with a key difference from the desert planet in "Star Wars" has been serendipitously discovered orbiting not two stars, but a pair of brown dwarfs. What's more, this wacky planet ...