If you were to compare planet Earth to the Sun, you'd find that you'd have to stack 109 Earths atop one another just to go from one end of the Sun to the other. Yet there are stars out there that are ...

The first Death Star had a diameter of between 140 and 160 kilometers. The second Death Star’s diameter ranged from 160 to 900 kilometers. In 2007 Devon Crowe of PSI corporation created a study for ...

Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking revelation about the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters.

With very few exceptions, stars are so distant that even powerful telescopes see them only as dimensionless specks of light. How, then, can we know their sizes? Fortunately, there’s a simple ...

In August, scientists caught their first-ever glimpse of two superdense neutron stars colliding, setting off ripples of gravitational waves that reached Earth. Now, a team of researchers has taken ...

Stars emerge fully grown from their natal clouds of gas and dust. Many are only a fraction of the sun’s size, but some are behemoths. However, a new study suggests that no star in our galaxy can weigh ...

Astronomers have discovered a star 600 light-years away that stretches the definition of what can even be considered a star. That's because EBLM J0555-57Ab, the smallest star ever discovered, is the ...