Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system . In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around two stars that orbit each other closely. That configuration should just be too unstable. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the universe that it should not happen, because we keep finding them. Now, researchers have found not one, but three planets orbiting a compact binary. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

TOI-2267 is made up of two small and cool stars. The team confirmed the presence of two exoplanets, and there is strong evidence for the presence of a third one. The two stars are not next to each other; they are about 1.2 billion kilometers (745 million miles) away, which sounds like a lot,

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