Other asteroids are expected to swing past Earth on Star Wars Day, though they won’t come as close. For a bit more context as to just how close this x-wing-sized asteroid will come to Earth ...

An asteroid the size of six Darth Vaders is set to pass the Earth on Thursday, May 4, also known as Star Wars Day, at a very close distance, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in ...

Many Star Wars fans would agree that the most iconic ... The way to build one according to Muirhead is to use an existing asteroid. The engineer figures that the asteroid would provide the metals ...

US: Two Nasa astronauts have worked out a way to create a real-life version of a Star Wars "tractor beam" to keep an asteroid from crashing into the Earth. Simply by hovering nearby for perhaps a ...

The best way to build a Death Star is to construct one out of an already-existing asteroid, says Brian Muirhead ... and what NASA spacecraft have common with Star Wars ships.