Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...

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 ...

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

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

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From matching pajamas to dance parties, here's a look at how your favorite stars are spending the Christmas holiday.