The Star Wars franchise famously takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but does Earth factor into things? We have an answer ...

Unlike Star Wars, which takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far away, the Alien movies have always been a glimpse into humanity's distant-but-imaginable future. Putting aside the non-canon Alien ...

The team received their initial indications regarding these three remote Earth-like planets when they analysed data from Nasa ...

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 ...

NASA’s TESS has uncovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting twin suns, defying long-held beliefs that binary systems are too ...