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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three.

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

An exoplanet is said to orbit three stars at once. However, it poses a whole series of other questions to scientists.

New research suggests an exoplanet in the GW Ori star system might be orbiting three stars at once.

GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three.