Kepler-47 is a 3.5-billion-year-old star system about 3,340 light years away from Earth. It's one of nine systems that we know of that are "binary star systems," which means it has not one star at its ...

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Imagine a world with two different Suns in the sky, similar to Luke Skywalker’s home desert planet Tatooine in “Star Wars.” Such a world exists, as NASA announced in September 2011. But now, NASA has ...

A team of astronomers has found the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. This discovery shows that planetary systems can form and survive ...

Meet Kepler-47d, a puffy planet that lies 3,340 light-years from Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The only known ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the ...

Oh, this is too cool: scientists have found a planet orbiting a binary star (a pair of stars in tight orbit around each other) that is at the right distance to have liquid water! Let me be clear: this ...