Latest about Stars
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion powered up by the creation of a highly magnetic dead star, or magnetar.
Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp.
Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the center of our galaxy as you might imagine.
"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.
