In The News: College of Sciences

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.

Detroit Free Press

The murder hornets that have been making headlines and both terrifying and fascinating the public can be as deadly as their nickname implies, but their true threat is to honeybee populations, rather than people.

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.

The Caving Podcast

Matthew Lachniet is a paleoclimatologist who studies cave formations to get a record of past climate history.

The Seattle Times

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.

Live Science

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

Future Zone

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

Western Michigan University

Whether in the lab, in the air or far beyond Earth's orbit, Western faculty members are blazing trails and inspiring change in their fields of study.

Mashable

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