If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you’ll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system. It’s too faint to see with the naked eye, ...
The team of astronomers used NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, named Kepler-1647b. The planet is colloquially referred to as a “Tatooine” planet because it orbits two suns, ...
Forget Nemo or Dory. Scientists have found a planet that's similar to Tatooine, home of Luke Skywalker. The planet — with the unwieldy name of Kepler-1647b — is the largest one yet discovered that ...
Researchers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have spotted the largest planet yet orbiting a two-star system. The planet — dubbed Kepler-1647b — is basically the same size as Jupiter in ...