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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...