Some vampire white dwarfs can transform into neutron stars, but like a cosmic Goldilocks, conditions must be "just right" for ...

DENVER — Stanley Cup playoff games so often are about one team being able to impose its style on another team. The Dallas Stars on Saturday night found comfort in a low-scoring affair, especially ...

DALLAS — And now we get the series we were supposed to get. Two bona fide Stanley Cup contenders taking swings at each other. But it was oh-so-close to a whole other story. “I mean, our season’s on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens ...

Scientists observe stars forming in the modern universe to understand how the process plays out. This is difficult because stars take so much time to form, while we've only been watching young stars ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you'll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that's only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

Made up of three of summer’s brightest stars, the Summer Triangle is an easy starting point for exploring—and ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

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There’s a new contender for the universe’s earliest first-generation stars. A bright clump seen about 450 million years after the Big Bang has the chemical hallmarks of first-generation stars — ...

One of the ironies of deep-sky imaging is that stars are generally not the stars of the show. Of course, there are exceptions with targets like open clusters. But for nebulae and other objects, the ...