A team of astronomers used three instruments from the Keck Observatory to study WR 104, a stellar system nicknamed the 'death star'. They discovered that the two massive stars composing it orbit ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth. The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a ...

revealing it is not likely to live up to its "death star" reputation. Located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius, the enigmatic star system WR 104 is ...

To promote the upcoming film "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," Disney turned Epcot's "Spaceship Earth" ride into an incredibly awesome Death Star. Here's what it looked like. Video courtesy of Disney.

During the birth of the planetary system, the planetesimals form a disk of dust and ice around the young star and grow into planetary embryos. “Current thinking goes that Earth inherited most ...