exoplanets – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

What would seasons be like on a Tatooine-like planet?

A Tatooine-like planet, or a planet that orbits a binary star system, would very likely orbit at a relatively…

Yes, though the formation process for such a system is rather difficult to construct, making such binary planet systems…

You can get a sense of the biggest problem with sending anything to other potentially habitable planets by checking…

Yes. Planets that orbit a single star in a binary star system are called “non-circumbinary planets”. In general, a…

I don’t believe that the scenario you describe, were a moon is effectively shared by two planets in a…

Related to some recent questions regarding exoplanet properties, I have pointed to the Open Exoplanet Catalog as a source…

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