To the stars: a stellar trivia quiz
This quiz will take you on a journey through the life cycle of stars, their classification, and the incredible processes that power them.
Zoom through the Milky Way’s stellar nurseries in this super-detailed 3D map (video)
Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy.
The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as astronomers thought
Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.
Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs
Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star?
Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how hypervelocity white dwarfs rocket out of the Milky Way at breakneck speeds.
How do the biggest stars in the universe grow so large?
Some stars in the universe grow to 300 times larger our own sun. But how do they get so big, and how do they sustain their mass?
Supernovas are hard to detect. Scientists just found a way to spot them hours after they explode
Astronomers have learned how to find supernova explosions in their earliest stages, giving us an unprecedented look at how these stars blow up.
This baby star’s big explosion fired back: ‘Nature is far more complex than humans think’
Astronomers discovered a star-triggered explosion shaping its dusty disk, revealing a far more chaotic and intense environment than previously thought.
Red supergiant star expels mysteriously large cloud of gas
The star, called DFK 52, is a member of a cluster of similar red supergiants, but it's losing mass at an extreme rate never seen before.
Scientists capture bridge of stray stars being sucked from one galaxy to another
Astronomers spot a rare stellar bridge in Abell 3667, revealing an aggressive galaxy merger and new clues about dark matter.