NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered a planet that orbits two suns, just like Luke Skywalker's homeworld of Tatooine. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

What was projected in the iconic movie saga, Star Wars, by American filmmaker George Lucas has been revealed as a scientific fact by NASA's Kepler mission. For the first time, scientists have ...

In news that conjures up visions of Luke Skywalker looking wistfully at the twin sunset of Tatooine accompanied by a stirring John Williams score, NASA's Kepler mission has detected the first planet ...

Scientists have spotted a real-life Tatooine — a world with two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films — and you should be able to see this alien star system, too, using a ...

It’s not Tatooine, but it’s kinda close. More like an Ohann or Adriana. Those are fictional gas giants orbiting the binary suns Tatoo I and II in Star Wars, the stars made famous by Luke Skywalker ...

A team of astronomers has detected a “Tatooine-like” exoplanet that orbits two stars. A person living on the planet would see two suns in the sky, like Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars — but ...

A study on the latest observations of the planet titled "BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b - the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocities ...

If there’s a bright center to the Universe, astronomers have found the planet it’s farthest from. Called Kepler-16b, it’s a Saturn-like world which has the distinction of being the first discovered to ...

It is one of the most memorable images from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker gazing into the distance while walking on Tatooine, a planet with two suns. And more than three decades after the movies came out ...

The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of possible exoplanets during its years working for NASA, with each bringing us one step closer to finding another world in our universe that hosts ...

Scientists spot distant world with NASA probe. Sept. 15, 2011 — -- Early in the original "Star Wars" film, there is a scene in which a restless Luke Skywalker gazes at the sunsets -- twin suns, ...