A new satellite survey has found nearly 30 unusual planets orbiting two stars instead of one, similar to Tatooine, the ...

For four years, NASA’s planet-hunting telescope photographed the light of 2.2 million stars. The data sat in public archives, ...

The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...

Since 2019, NASA has offered the public free access to an enormous trove of starlight data collected by its Transiting ...

Astronomers identify 27 potential planets orbiting two stars using new detection methods, offering fresh insights into how ...

Binary star systems may help giant planets form more easily by triggering planet formation far from their stars.

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to ...

The galaxy’s most common stars rarely host sub-Neptune planets, revealing a new pattern in how close-in worlds form.

Can stars eat planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by ASTRO 3D researchers investigated how some pairs of twin stars ...

Washington DC — New theoretical work shows that gas-giant planet formation can occur around binary stars in much the same way that it occurs around single stars like the Sun. The work is presented ...

If David Weintraub and Jeff Bary are right, there may be a lot more planets circling stars like the Sun than current models of star and planet formation predict. The associate professor of astronomy ...