Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Scientists have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand why some dead stellar remnants called white dwarf stars explode. These energetic explosions, called Type Ia supernovas, ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...

A rare quadruple star system that is the first of its kind to be discovered by astronomers could help better understand so-called "failed stars" or brown dwarfs. These celestial bodies get their ...

Photo Caption: An artist’s conception of EF Eri during a time when there is mass accretion from the donor star to the white dwarf. The region where the thin gas stream breaks up into many filaments is ...

A team of astronomers has just published a detailed catalog of 2,100 stars, considered as potentially hosting planets ...

It's impossible to tell for sure how many stars there are in the Universe for the simplest reason that it's impossible to see them all, let alone count them. Some estimates, based on, well, more or ...