"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

From ancient stargazers to modern-day space scientists, women have shaped our understanding of the cosmos. This crossword ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars. When you ...

Laura Nicole Driessen is a brand ambassador for the Rise & Shine Education Orbit Centre of Imagination. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...