A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star systems.

Astronomers have captured a rare and remarkably close view of a giant planet circling a pair of tightly bound suns, offering ...

How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

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 ...

What a surprise to discover a planet that instantly evokes the Star Wars universe! Instead of a single sun, it orbits two ...

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Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

A pair of stars with three planets in orbit around one star or the other is the first system of its kind that has been confirmed. Pairs of stars, known as binaries, appear to be more common in the ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

May also wrench planets out of the plane in which they form. This reminds me of a handy MinutePhysics video that explains why planetary disks are expected to be flat in the first place. "This is ...