In 2025, one might assume that all types of stars in the Milky Way have been cataloged, yet the universe continues to surprise us. In 1953, American astronomer Alan Sandage revolutionized our ...

This investigation explores the possibility that quark stars, an even denser form of stellar remnant than neutron stars, may finally have been detected. New astronomical observations are pushing the ...

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 ...

The white dwarfs reach speeds of almost 4x needed to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull. Researchers at the ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...

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 ...

A stellar nursery filled with hundreds of blistering-hot and massive newborn stars is captured in two new images by the James Webb Space Telescope, which showcase the uniquely dense region of outer ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have just discovered one of the rarest stars in our galaxy. These types of ...

Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better understand the process of stellar life and death.

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what ...

The Tarantula nebula is home to some of the largest known stars, boasting masses up to 200 times that of our sun. The Hubble Space Telescope captured a scene on the nebula's fringes where the super ...