In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy

ABC News 4

Two's company, three's a crowd?

International Business Times

The existence of a circumtriple planet demonstrates that planets may form in any system, even in the most strange ways.

CTV News

Researchers believe they may have discovered the very first instance of a planet orbiting three stars at once, although they still haven’t seen it yet.

Space.Com

A Jupiter-sized world may be kicking up dust in the triple-star system GW Ori.

Mysterious Universe

Astronomers may have just found the first ever evidence of a planet orbiting three stars at the same time.

Nouvelles du monde

In a distant star system - just 1,300 light years from Earth - American astronomers may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars, a finding that has implications for strengthening our understanding of how planets were formed.

Tech Times

Exoplanet researchers just found something that might be the first of its kind ever: a planet orbiting three stars.

Phys.Org

UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.

Mirage News

In a distant star system — a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth — UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.

Dubai Week

An international team of astronomers has released a new study explaining the unusual structure of the three-star system GW Orionis in the Orion galaxy.

EarthSky

GW Orionis, or GW Ori, is a triple star system located at the head of Orion the Hunter. A massive protoplanetary disk surrounds the triple star system.

Spektrum

As of yet, all that can be seen is a strange gap in the dust disk. But there are many indications that a planet has been discovered for the first time that orbits three stars at once.