The gap between "Star Wars" fiction and real-world technology might be smaller than you think. Some of what the franchise ...

Pilots in Star Wars enter a dimension, hyperspace, to travel between distant worlds. To merge onto this cosmic highway, ships are equipped with special engines called hyperdrives. With the push of a ...

Astronomers identify 27 potential circumbinary planets orbiting two stars, offering real-life parallels to Star Wars’ Tatooine and expanding the search for exoplanets.

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker ...