Thus, any moon of these circumbinary planets that may have the potential to form life, as they may be similar in size to Earth if a planet is very large. It's not a trivial question to ask if ...

Luke Skywalker would feel right at home on Kepler-16b. This exoplanet is the first known circumbinary planet — a planet that ...

Artist’s rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system with its three planets. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Illustration celebrating the discovery of the circumbinary planet BEBOP-1c using the radial-velocity method. Astronomers rarely put their eye to the telescope, but instead the data comes directly ...

In fact, only 12 such circumbinary planets have been discovered so far. Nonetheless, the National Aeronautics And Space Administration’s (NASA) planet-hunting satellite was able to spot one such ...

The planet has got a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found. "It's a bit curious that this biggest planet took so long ...