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A newly compiled 3D map has revealed more than 1 million binary star pairs located within 3,000 light years of…

Blue milk is obviously the superstar when you think of Star Wars food. But rising up the charts, literally, is the…

Welcome to the Universe, IRAS 14568-6304. There’s no catchy name for this particular stellar object, because it’s…

This giant cosmic bubble may seem an unusual sight, but in fact it’s pretty common across the Universe—because its…

The most fundamental outdoor skill is also often one of the most misunderstood. Learn these five campfires and…

The Universe is a truly incredible place. This spectacular new photo by the Hubble space telescope—showing a young…

Ever wondered what a dead star looks like? Then have a gander at the image above — you're looking at "Kepler's…

The star Wolf-Rayet WR124 disintegrates in the constellation Sagitta, 10,900 light years from Earth. The fiery…

This photo of the birth of a star—newly captured by the Hubble Space Telescope—is so beautiful that it seems unreal,…

I never imagined I was going to see something like this: A video of a star bursting in space, illuminating the…

This is a grain of interstellar dust. To get one of these, your best bet is to get into a spaceship for a couple…

Stars are colossal fusion reactors, burning hydrogen into helium. As the nuclei fuse lighter elements into heavier…

NASA has created the first ever map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant, revealing one of the biggest…

Hubble has captured "a striking new image [of a] star in the process of forming within the Chamaeleon cloud [...]…

In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers recount the fascinating case of an…

And with "just" I mean 11.4 million years ago, even while Steve Fossey just detected this bright…

The Hubble space telescope has captured "a lidless purple eye, staring back at us through space"—a star 20,000…

I wish I could put the southern hemisphere superstar RS Puppis on top of my tree—if it weren't ten times more…