"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

If you look eastward at the same hour for two nights in a row, you’ll find that the stars seem to be in the same place. But ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...

"Baby star clusters" are aggregates of very young stars in the early stages of formation. Distinguished by their recent birth ...

The vast majority of stars form and reside within galaxies due to the presence of cold, dense molecular gas clouds conducive to star formation. True intergalactic space, characterized by low-density ...

A dim star orbiting the Milky Way is drawing attention for its almost pristine composition. Named PicII-503, it contains barely any heavy elements, making it one of the most extreme examples of an ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, ...