NASA Finds Planets Resembling Those In ‘Star Wars’ Fictional Universe; Habitable Worlds And Life Forms Next On NASA’s Agenda [Video]

NASA rummages through its voluminous alien worlds data and found that there are real planets in our solar system that resemble Tatooine, Hoth, or Scarif from the "Star Wars" fictional universe created by George Lucas. NASA scientists believe that finding alien life forms and habitable worlds may soon come next as the space agency launches a program to search for more planets around other stars.

NASA finds an uncanny resemblance of discovered planets to the "Star Wars" worlds, which prompted astronomers to nickname these planets after their "Star Wars" counterparts. Lucas is more than willing to lend the name as the revelation surprises him as well.

NASA's Kepler-16b is now nicknamed Tatooine after the fictional arid planet in "Star Wars." Tatooine is home to Luke Skywalker with its popular feature of having two suns.

Kepler-16b also has two suns and like Luke in Tatooine may also have two shadows, see two unique sunsets and witness two rainbows after every storm. Kepler-16b got its name from NASA's Kepler space telescope, which was used by Laurance Doyle in discovering the "Star Wars" Tatooine look-alike.

There are also frozen ocean worlds in our own solar system like the one in the moon Europa, which may once have been like the perpetual rainy Kamino of the "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" or the beaches-laden Scarif from "Rogue One." According to NASA, ocean glint can be observable even from great distances as can be seen in Europa, Enceladus and Saturn's biggest moon, Titan with its ocean of liquid methane gas, according to Phys Org.

It appears that George Lucas may be gifted with precognition as to what the universe has to reveal as can be seen in the "Star Wars" fictional universe. NASA believes that the diverse alien life forms in Lucas' imagination may also be discovered in the near future.

NASA hopes to find evidence of habitable world and alien life forms with its launching of new generation spacecraft on a mission to find other planets around other suns, the Daily Mail reported. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satelitte (TESS) will be launched and monitored by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to discover what the atmosphere of other planets reveals.