Magnetars are neutron stars with the universe's most powerful magnetic fields, often hundreds of trillions of times more powerful than Earth's magnetosphere.. Low-field magnetars, first discovered ...

Astronomers have documented around 800 cases of stars mysteriously vanishing over the past 70 years. New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests these stars might be collapsing ...

Brown dwarfs blur the lines between stars and planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Brown dwarfs are curious celestial ...

The star is a white dwarf — the shriveled husk of a sun-like star that burned off most of its fuel before collapsing. For stars with cores made mostly of metallic oxygen and carbon, the cooling ...

Light that escapes collapsing stars and dust clouds may sport an unusually blue hue. Light emitted within these gravitationally unstable objects can get compressed and thus become bluer ...

An animation shows how a series of supernovas beginning 14 million years ago created the Local Bubble, a cavity of very thin, hot gas in our sun's corner of the Milky Way.

Stealing gas from their siblings could leave stars with a motley crew of planets – including ones with backwards orbits. Our solar system is thought to have formed from a collapsing cloud of gas ...