Astronomers led by Margo Thornton, a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales and SETI Institute researcher, have identified 27 candidate planets orbiting binary star systems using a novel detection method that analyzes timing shifts in stellar eclipses. By studying 1,590 eclipsing binary stars from NASA's TESS space telescope data, they detected unexplained orbital changes in 71 systems, with 36 showing additional effects best explained by planet-sized objects in 27 cases. This approach, based on apsidal precession, overcomes the alignment limitations of the traditional transit method. Published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the discovery could reveal many more circumbinary planets, as only about 18 were previously confirmed, and enhance understanding of planet formation in dual-star systems.