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No, it's not from Star Wars, where the fictional double sunset on Tatooine made such a memorable imprint years ago. But astronomers from NASA have discovered a planet 200 light-years from Earth that apparently orbits two suns like Tatooine.

Astronomers have announced discovery of the first circumbinary planet, a rare planet that orbits two stars, as portrayed in the sci-fi movie Star Wars more than 30 years ago.

Called Kepler-16b, the newly found circumbinary planet is likened with the fictional aliens-inhabited planet called Tatooine, which was portrayed to have two sunsets in the Hollywood epic Star Wars series.

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.

A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three International Space Station (ISS) crew members on board landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday.

Scientists working with NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a planet containing two suns as shown by the 1977 sci-fi movie Star Wars, breaking several galactic assumptions that were previously thought to exist only in science fiction movies or books.

Three of the six astronauts who were stationed at the International Space Station, began their return to Earth on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule.

A fireball that streaked over the Southwestern sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.

NASA has announced plans for the world's largest and most powerful rocket that would be capable of launching astronauts to asteroids and eventually to Mars.

NASA has discovered a planet orbiting two stars about 200 light years from Earth, it announced on Thursday. The circumbinary planet is the first of its kind to be found, and it is bound to pique people's interest because of its resemblance to the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies.

Astronomers have discovered a planet whirling around not one but two stars, expanding the pantheon of known heavenly bodies to places formerly reserved for fictions like the twin-sunned Tatooine of Star Wars Fame.

A bright dazzling light sweeping across the Southern California skyline on Wednesday night was most probably just a type of meteor known as a fireball, NASA reported.

A brilliant bright light seen bolting across the Southwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.

NASA is all set to come up with a $30 billion rocket that will eventually carry astronauts to the Mars, said the agency on Wednesday.

NASA's endangered James Webb Space Telescope project has survived a funding vote in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.

Hundreds of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles reported observing a dazzling mysterious bright display in the night sky on Wednesday. Authorities said it was most likely a meteor sighting.

A research team from NASA has created high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath a desert in Northern Kuwait by using radar sounding technology that provides more accurate idea of underground water levels.

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

NASA has unveiled the new design plan of an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

While on its mission to study rocks on Mars to get clues to an early wet environment, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is examining second rock since its landing on the new site, the Endeavour crater, in August.

NASA is working on a 320-feet multi-billion-dollar Space Launch System (SLS), which is also the world's largest rocket, aiming to explore nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s.