"To study stellar populations in a statistically meaningful way, we need many more observations of individual stars." Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at ...

A peculiar cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the Milky Way could become "immortal" by continuously capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study ...

FREWSBURG – Stars come in all shapes and sizes: Big powerful blue stars, small yet feisty red stars, strange pulsating yellow stars, and more. How do we know so much about stars? ... The Study Of ...

Star PDS 70 is a youngster at 5 million years old, which researchers say is considered a newborn compared to Earth's 4.6-billion-year-old sun.

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. A groundbreaking study ...

Course content will include the study of solar systems, stars, and galaxies; cosmology; general relativity; black holes; and observational astronomy. Robinson, who joined the AU faculty two years ago, ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.