There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...

And although it has the highest radius of all the stars, it is not actually the most massive, as UY Scuti is about 30 times the weight of our sun, a stark reminder that you can't judge a star entirely ...

Astronomers have long known that many of the largest stars in our Milky Way do not live alone but instead exist in pairs. Now ...