Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

WE’VE come a long way since women hurled themselves under racehorses and chained themselves to railings to get the vote. Now women can sleep with 1,000 men in a day, film it and post it on ...

This type of supernova requires a remarkable object called a white ... mass of the sun. When a star of this size uses up the supply of hydrogen in its core, it balloons into a red giant, becoming ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

In some systems, stars interact in fascinating ways. One of these stories involves a star called the “blue lurker,” recently ...

The sky will get a colourful nebula, and the remains of the explosion become a small, dense star. While we will not be around ...