Stars

"These measurements vastly expand our understanding of how stellar neighborhoods like our own are built."

A new study suggests that most "post-starburst galaxies" cease star formation because they run out of fuel. But that's not the full story.

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming regions across the Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like star dies.

The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way.

Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation and dark matter.

Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio signals from their extremities.

Astronomers have used the XRISM X-ray spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a mystery that has baffled scientists for over 100 years.

"Failed star" brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.