Has been found!
Yep, using a relatively new technique measuring the way light from a star "wobbles" as it's bent around a planet, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/14/planet.suns.reut/index.html">a new extra-solar planet has been found in a previously unconcieved of situation</a>. Until the astronomers at the California Institute of Technology found what the call the "Tattooine planet", scientists didn't think that binary or trinary star systems could support a planet of any reasonable size. They felt that such systems, which outnumber single-star systems like our own by 20 percent, were just too unstable to maintain a planet. But, now they know better. This discovery, of course, opens a whole new realm of possibilites for space discovery and colonization. Not to mention gives a whole lot of validation to the space opera writers who've imagined multiple suns setting in alien skies since the early days of science-fiction.
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