Nothing is quite as iconic of the Star Wars franchise as is the lightsaber. A weapon wielded by force-sensitive being of good and evil intent, the lightsaber symbolizes the transcendent nature of the ...

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma blade that can slice through steel has forced a small Canadian workshop to ...

Disney’s parks and experiences boss unveiled a “real” lightsaber at the SXSW conference on Friday, 10 March. Footage shows Josh D’Amaro pressing a button on the side of the iconic Star Wars device, ...

A chemist has explained what Star Wars’most iconic lightsaber colors would mean in the real world. When the original Star Wars movie, later retitled A New Hope, first premiered in 1977, audiences were ...