Young stars need time to grow into their final masses before they begin fusing lighter elements into heavier elements as main ...

Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...

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

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

When observing the night sky, it's easy to forget that every point of twinkling light is a star at some point in its life cycle. Between a star's violent birth and even more violent death, it remains ...

This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last ...