Kepler-16b orbits it's two stars. NASA's Kepler Mission discovered the world orbiting two Stars, the larger a K dwarf and the smaller a red dwarf. (Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle via Getty Images) ...

Yesterday, NASA announced that they’d discovered the first unambiguous example ofa Tatooine-like planet; the planet, Kepler-16b orbits two suns, just like the dusty ...

A team of astronomers has detected a “Tatooine-like” exoplanet that orbits two stars. A person living on the planet would see two suns in the sky, like Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars — but ...

It’s not Tatooine, but it’s kinda close. More like an Ohann or Adriana. Those are fictional gas giants orbiting the binary suns Tatoo I and II in Star Wars, the stars made famous by Luke Skywalker ...

A study on the latest observations of the planet titled "BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b - the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocities ...

A team of astronomers, including a researcher from Ohio State, located a planet orbiting two stars that resembles the planet Tatooine from the movie series “Star Wars.” Using a technique known as the ...

A rare exoplanet that orbits two suns like the planet Tatooine in Star Wars has been detected by an unusual method for the first time. Specifically, Kepler-16b has been detected by a ground-based ...

Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine. Like Tatooine, ...

This artist’s concept illustrates Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two ...

The discovery of a planet orbiting a binary star in the habitable zone is the tenth of its kind, indicating such planets are more common than previously thought. Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...