NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered a planet that orbits two suns, just like Luke Skywalker's homeworld of Tatooine. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

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 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 ...

Using data from NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems — planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such “two sun” ...

In one of the most iconic scenes in the sci-fi epic, Star Wars, Luke Skywalker stares up into a fading sky framed by two setting suns over the dusty plains of the planet Tatooine. Yesterday, NASA ...

Scientists have spotted a real-life Tatooine — a world with two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films — and you should be able to see this alien star system, too, using a ...

An artist's rendition of Kepler, on the hunt for planets like our own. NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle Recently, after four years of training the Kepler Space Telescope on 150,000 distant stars, NASA ...

The first alien planet with two suns in its sky has just been found, but many more of them are almost certainly out there, scientists say. At a press conference yesterday (Sept. 15), researchers using ...