Two Merry-go-Round Planets Discovered for the First Time in a System Believed to Have None

Astronomers call it KOI-134, and it's a star located 3,747 light-years away from Earth. Despite the huge distance that separates us, we've known it was there for more than a decade now, ever since the Kepler space telescope was pointed that way. Until now, we believed the star had no accompanying planets – it turns out there are two of them, and their orbits are peculiar, to say the least. The discovery belongs to a te... (continue reading...)