Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

It’s so…black! You can hardly make out its shape…light just seems to fall into it! That is the word of David Kipping of the ...

WASHINGTON (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. Astronomers since ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among of the most famous scenes in pop culture. When Star Wars debuted in 1977, ...

Before the recent discovery, scientists had only theorized the existence of such a system with a circumbinary planet on a perpendicular orbit—also called a polar orbit—based on clues such as ...

These objects are rare, so that the best evidence yet of a polar circumbinary planet is in such a rare system is either a stroke of luck or evidence that these rare systems are more interesting ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle ... Most of the 16 known circumbinary planets—that is, planets that orbit two stars—follow this coplanar rule. These were largely found by NASA ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

An artist's impression shows the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. — Reuters/File ...

But for sheer exoticism, it would be hard to top a newly described circumbinary planet located relatively nearby in our Milky Way galaxy. It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs - celestial ...

In the "Star Wars" universe, Luke Skywalker famously came from the planet of Tatooine, which had two suns and double sunsets. Tatooine is in a circumbinary orbit, which means that it doesn't orbit ...