Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways to identify them. But while astronomers have searched for exomoons orbiting exoplanets around single stars like our Sun, could exomoons exist around exoplanets orbiting binary stars? This is what a recent study submitted to … Continue reading "Could Planets Orbiting Two Stars Have Moons?"

Astronomers have found some unusual planetary systems, including planets that orbit around two stars. These are circumbinary planets, and it takes special conditions to be stable. Even if the planets can remain in orbit around both stars, what about their moons? Astronomers haven’t found any exomoons yet, but a new paper explores the conditions under which they could form and survive. This is exciting because many would be in the habitable zone of the binary stars.