stars

Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.

Black holes can swallow matter, and they grow by accreting gas, dust and even the occasional star. But are they the vacuum-mouthed monsters they are often presented to be?

Black hole sun, won't you come? It all depends on a star's mass before it dies.

Most scientists say a star can never become a planet, but the boundaries between these stellar objects can sometimes be murky.

Astronomers studied the remains of a massive star ripped apart by a black hole in an epic astro-forensic murder investigation.

Also known as "failed stars," brown dwarfs are celestial bodies that sit on the boundary between gas giant planets and tiny stars.

The ancient star Earendel is more than twice as hot as the sun and around a million times brighter, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest.

Scientists recreated the eerie twinkle of a star in an attempt to map the cosmic furnace's inner workings.

A slowly rotating, ultrabright object 15,000 light-years from Earth defies every logical explanation that astronomers have thrown at it.

Ghostly nebulas created by exploding stars appear to align in the Milky Way's bulging center. Astronomers may finally know why.