Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists say

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

WASHINGTON: 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, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer exoticism, it would be

Star Wars-like planet with unusual orbit found outside solar system, scientists say

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit two stars like the “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine with double sunsets that Luke Skywalker calls home.

Astronomers find 'Tatooine' planet orbiting two stars

The planet is orbiting two brown dwarf stars about 120 light years away.

Star Wars' Tatooine-like planet baffles astronomers with its strange orbit

It's not the first time researchers have found a planet like the one in Star Wars, but this alien world has a particularly peculiar polar orbit around its two suns.

Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit twin stars

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

A two-sun planet, like the planet Tatooine imagined by George Lucas in The Star Wars, was detected by the ESO's Very Large Telescope.