Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A study of 91 pairs of stars finds that about 8%, or one in 12, swallowed up a planet at some point in their lives. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Within the rubble of an exploded star, astrophysicists have found unexpectedly high amounts of two ingredients essential for ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual stars ever detected so far away – a feat once considered near-impossible.

image: A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as ...

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that ...

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their ...

Theorists have long wondered how massive stars–up to 120 times the mass of the Sun–can form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth. But the problem turns out to be less ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IRWD), a global GI-focused healthcare company, presented positive final data from the company’s Phase II STARS Nutrition program during ...