Why the 6,000-planet milestone changes the scientific picture Reaching 6,000 confirmed worlds is not just a symbolic round number. Each addition to the archive sharpens the statistical models that ...

There's so little we know about circumbinary planets—planets that orbit two stars instead of one—that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we've only confirmed the ...

A team of astronomers have piloted a new method to find planets and in the process, found 27 potential new worlds in double star systems. To date, we've only confirmed the existence of 18 circumbinary ...