Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of elements on the period table. These are some of the building blocks of life as ...

Dark stars are not exactly stars, and they are certainly not dark.

Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems.

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexey A. Petrov, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists working ...