It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the ...

Observations show that giant star WOH G64 rapidly changed temperature and identity, revealing massive stars evolving in real ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.6 billion years old, as a new analysis suggests, then the universe ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids, which will from now on be discovered at an astonishing rate as it begins ...