Just a few hundred light years from Earth, a swollen red giant is quietly forcing astronomers to rethink how stars seed the galaxy with the raw materials for planets and life. New observations of the ...

Death is not the end; it is a change of form. This is what stars teach us. Stars usually take anywhere from millions to trillions of years to pass away. Their death is a fascinating process of mass ...

Why Oxygen-Rich Stars Are a Problem That idea has always been harder to defend for oxygen-rich red giants. In these stars, dust is thought to form first as aluminium oxide, then grow into silicate ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A red giant star will consume planets close to it, but leave others just right for life. . | ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...