The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

Stars cluster together in galaxies, much like homes gather into cities. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, holds around 100 billion stars.From far away, those stars blur into glowing streaks, like ...

The extreme qualities of neutron stars could mean these dead stellar remnants gather dense clouds of hypothetical particles called "axions" around them, potentially shedding light on dark matter.

Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. iStock / Getty Images Plus. These unique white dwarfs exhibit different compositional "faces" as they spin, resembling one type of ...

While large, hot stars typically have temperatures of 40,000 to 50,000 degrees Celsius, the stars seen in this galaxy were calculated to be over 80,000 degrees Celsius.