Recent observations of a dying star have offered a chilling glimpse into the cataclysmic fate that awaits Earth billions of ...

Recent astronomical observations have revealed a startling reality: aging stars are far more destructive to their orbiting ...

How do stars form and evolve inside globular clusters? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers conducted a ...

Nuclear astrophysics plays a pivotal role in informing our understanding of stellar evolution by investigating the nuclear reactions within stars that dictate their birth, evolution, and ultimate fate ...

Helium, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen, plays a central role in determining the physical and chemical characteristics of stars.

The sheer existence of these behemoths was immediately flagged as impossible—for one, they fell squarely within the ...

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 ...

The evolution of stars and their interactions with compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, remain pivotal in our understanding of the cosmos. Stellar evolution describes the life ...

A new study has traced a link between Lithium-rich red giant stars and their enhanced Helium abundance, using data from the Himalayan Chandra Telescope and other archival data. The study gives a ...