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

"There are trillions of stars in the universe, and about every second, one of them explodes." The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone: It has classified over 10,000 ...

Scientists have discovered an exciting new way to uncover how stars are formed by studying their spectacular deaths. Using ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

White dwarfs are the remnants of once-sunlike stars that have burned through their nuclear fuel. These stripped-down cores ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

How does that work, and how do stars form in the first place? Let's take a tour of one of the universe's most defining, beautiful, and enduring objects—including our own Sun. Most of an atom's ...

Gary Graham, known for his role as the Vulcan ambassador Soval in Star Trek: Enterprise, left an indelible mark on the sci-fi ...