The JWST continues to live up to its promise by revealing things hidden from other telescopes. One of its lesser-known observations concerns free-floating planets (FFP). FFPs have no gravitational ...

This points to new targets in the search for extraterrestrial life forms. Since the only known planet with life, the Earth, orbits the sun, planetary systems around stars of similar size are obvious ...

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 ...

A group of researchers has discovered a new exoplanet that is unique because it's orbiting a pair of stars. A planet of this type is called circumbinary, and for many years the planets were theorized ...

SEATTLE — Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars is the stuff of science fiction. But Tatooine-like planets in orbit around pairs of stars might be our best bet in the search for habitable planets ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Our life ...

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 ...

Scientists researching nine binary star systems—like our Solar System but with two Suns—have revealed that five have “habitable zones” that could host Earth-like planets. Binary stars were made famous ...

Astronomers using the VLBA have produced a full, 3-D view of a binary star system with a planet orbiting one of the stars. Their achievement promises important new insights into the process of planet ...

Astronomers struggle to understand how planets form in binary star systems. Early models suggested that the gravitational tug-of-war between two stellar bodies would send young planets into eccentric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive young planet orbiting two tightly bound stars has been directly imaged for the first time at solar system–like distances ...

Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the ...