Some of the planets and star systems are based on real-life locations in space. The most obvious example of this is the Alpha Centauri system, based on the real-life star, and the first star ...

We wanted to put the spotlight on the planets themselves with this article, so you'll have a much better understanding of their origins and history if you've been watching Star Wars from afar ...

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s star, which lies a mere six light-years from our solar system, has at least one — and possibly a handful — of small rocky planets orbiting it, a new study ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain ... and many of these moons will become ocean planets," Zhang ...

which set the record in 1956 with its third star taking 33 days to orbit its inner twin stars. Related: 32 alien planets that really exist The discovery team included citizen scientists who met as ...

Astronomers have long suspected that Barnard's Star may have planets, so focussed on the habitable zone around the star. This is the region around a star where conditions are "just right" for ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to the solar system, known as Barnard's star. The newly discovered exoplanet has around half the mass of Venus, which classifies ...

A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have been able to see the exoplanet – ...

The closest single star to Earth is home to at least one planet, and it’s a rocky little world not so different from ours. Astronomers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known ...

Cal Kestis is not only an interesting protagonist, but his journey has also taken fans across the galaxy to visit new Star Wars planets as well as some familiar ones. With the third game being the ...