The science team with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory project ... The Jawas and Tusken Raiders from "Star Wars", for example, wouldn't have been able to evolve on the sand-covered Tatooine ...

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Star Wars explored these themes with Darth Vader and even Luke Skywalker ... Artist's rendering of Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle ...

The planets and galaxies created for sci-fi films such as "Star Wars," "Star Trek," and "Alien" are pretty realistic. That is, according to Robert Hurt, a visualization specialist at NASA's Jet ...