"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.

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Known as a “circumbinary” planet, TIC 172900988b’s existence has been revealed in a paper published in the Astronomical Journal by a team led by Veselin B. Kostov of the SETI Institute.

Astronomers have discovered two new circumbinary planet systems -- planets that orbit two stars, like Tatooine in the movie Star Wars. Their find, which brings the number of known circumbinary ...

For the average person, the astrophysics involved in the earth’s single-star solar system may be difficult enough to grasp, but for a pair of planet-hunting citizen scientists and a group of ...

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.

An artist's illustration of PH1, a planet discovered by volunteers from the Planet Hunters citizen science project. PH1, shown in the foreground, is a circumbinary planet and orbits two suns.

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.

Astronomers have just discovered the first "circumbinary planet." Like Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films, this strange world, labeled Kepler-16b, orbits two closely ...

"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.