The Star Wars franchise famously takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but does Earth factor into things? We have an answer thanks to a pretty unlikely source.
The scene is burned into pop culture memory: a young Luke Skywalker, silhouetted against the vast desert, gazing wistfully as ...
Star Wars is packed with strange creatures that feel oddly familiar. That’s no accident. Many of the galaxy’s oddest life forms are rooted in Earth’s real animals, with some you’ve probably seen in ...
The twin stars in TOI-2267 orbit each other closely, forming what scientists call a “compact binary”. One of its planets ...
"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars." Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), ...