A young, still-forming star has been caught in the act of creating heat-born crystals and hurling them far into the cold ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

Astronomers have observed a Sun-like star dim dramatically for nearly nine months after being obscured by a vast cloud of gas and dust. A huge cloud filled with vaporized metals has been spotted ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...

Skygazers have been waiting for over a year to see a recurrent nova that creates a temporary, super-bright star every 80 years or so. A new study suggests that it could finally happen this week — but ...

Its influence can be seen in storytelling, character dynamics and even the optimism that defines much of modern sci-fi. Star ...

Staff member James Briggs presents a science demonstration during Star Wars Day on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, at the DaVinci Science Center in Allentown. Maria Williams helps her daughter, Aurora, ...