The Death Star drifts in, charges up all its lasers into a superlaser blast focused on Alderaan. The planet then detonates and chunks fly off in every direction just like the pie eating contest in ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The Death Star was a major Imperial battle station threatening the galaxy, but did Luke Skywalker know how many people he killed in A New Hope?

Scientists have discovered HIP 67522 b, a planet so close to its star that its orbit disturbs the star’s magnetic field, ...

One of the most dangerous aspects of the Death Star is that it is a galaxy-wide threat, capable of moving from planet to planet. This is what allowed the Empire to destroy Alderaan and later ...

A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: Andor are all about the lengths the Empire will go to keep its power. Whether it’s inciting ...

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.

Astronomers believe that for the first time ever, a star swallowed a planet as it died. The "Death Star" may be popularly known as Darth Sidious and Darth Vader's creation to destroy planets in ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

Just in time for Star Wars Day, astronomers for the first time Wednesday announced the discovery of a "Death Star" destroying a distant planet, a sight that could be a preview of Earth's eventual ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...