"A circumbinary planet experiences a sort of seasonal modulation, on roughly the timescale of the binary orbit, or half of it," said Triaud. There's lots of potential permutations here.

It’s the first confirmed circumbinary planet astronomers have found. The discovery comes from NASA’s Kepler Mission, which aims to gather information on habitable planets in the Milky Way.

The planet TIC 172900988b has two suns, making it a type of planet called a circumbinary, and it is the first of its kind to be detected using TESS observing just two transits.

Circumbinary systems, according to researchers, including those from the University of Birmingham in the UK, are important for pushing the understanding of what happens when a planet is created.

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The first circumbinary planet, known as Kepler-16b, was discovered in 2011. This was closely followed by the discovery of two more examples, Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b, in 2012..

It would take another 16 years before experts located an actual circumbinary planet in 1993. Still, only 15 examples have been located to date—but researchers now have strong evidence suggesting ...

In 2020, a circumbinary planet in the same system named TOI-1338b was discovered using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope.

This discovery marks the second time ever that multiple planets have been spotted orbiting the same multi-star system, known as circumbinary planets. The first planet orbiting multiple stars was ...

“A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit is rather incredible and exciting,” Amaury Triaud, a co-author of the study and an astronomer ...

"A circumbinary planet experiences a sort of seasonal modulation, on roughly the timescale of the binary orbit, or half of it," said Triaud. There's lots of potential permutations here.