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Astronomers find Tatooine planet orbiting 2 stars

Reuters on MSN · 1h

Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead?

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds,

Astronomers find 'Tatooine' planet orbiting two stars

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is orbiting two brown dwarfs, which are also known as failed stars. It’s about 120 light years away from our solar system.

IFLScience on MSN · 1d

New Planet In Strange Perpendicular Orbit Around Binary Stars Is Straight Out Of Science Fiction

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This configuration has been deemed theoretically possible, but actually seeing evidence for a planet orbiting like that is a whole other affair.

Scientists Believe Distant Planet Has 99.7% Chance of Life

The Associated Press on MSN · 15h

Astronomers find ‘strongest sign’ of life outside our solar system

Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another planet. “It is the strongest sign to date of any possibility of biological activity outside the solar system,” Cambridge astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan said during a livestream on Thursday.

Yeni Şafak · 23h

Scientists say 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet beyond solar system

K2-18 b, located approximately 124 light-years from Earth in constellation Leo, appears to contain dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide gases, which primarily produced by living organisms

NBC10 Philadelphia · 22h

Scientists detect strongest hints yet of life on a distant planet

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is still a 0.3% chance that the observation is a statistical fluke.

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Have aliens been discovered and which planets are contenders for life?

British researchers have found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond Earth with the discovery of an ocean-covered ...

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The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

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Artificial Intelligence Just Identified 44 Earth-Like Planets — What To Know

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

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