A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of ...

Life in the universe could depend on the vicissitudes of two wildly different types of stars. A team of astronomers recently used the venerable Hubble Space Telescope to study the light of 495 stars — ...

Beyond the M13 star cluster, the constellation Hercules gives us a good look into several different types of star systems and what distinguishes each. With some casual looking, we can spot several ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of elements on the period table. These are some of the building blocks of life as ...

"It's very unusual to find exotic new pulsars. But what's really exciting is the wide variety of such weirdos in a single cluster!" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

“Ad Astra” means “to the stars” in Latin. It’s a fitting name for the production, as it depends on two very different types of stars to tell the tale of a father and son set against the entire solar ...