That's exactly what was seen in a recent image from NASA's and the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope, as ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete. Starlight pushing on gra ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

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Astronomers have uncovered a new mystery surrounding a pinwheel-shaped star system—while, fortunately, revealing it is not likely to live up to its "death star" reputation. Located approximately 8,000 ...

The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, ...