{"id":236963,"date":"2026-05-12T02:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/more-star-wars-like-worlds-emerge-as-27-planet-candidates-with-two-suns-discovered"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:37:42","slug":"more-star-wars-like-worlds-emerge-as-27-planet-candidates-with-two-suns-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/more-star-wars-like-worlds-emerge-as-27-planet-candidates-with-two-suns-discovered","title":{"rendered":"More Star Wars-like worlds emerge as 27 planet candidates with two suns discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6ApATtWtsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s so little we know about circumbinary planets\u2014planets that orbit two stars instead of one\u2014that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we\u2019ve only confirmed the existence of 18 circumbinary planets, compared to the more than 6000 planets we know about in single star systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s so little we know about circumbinary planets\u2014planets that orbit two stars instead of one\u2014that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we\u2019ve only confirmed the existence of 18 circumbinary planets, compared to the more than 6000 planets we know about in single star systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}