Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...

Stars form in the universe from massive clouds of gas. European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...