As a star around the size of the Sun nears the end of its life, it runs out of fuel and turns into a stellar zombie known as a white dwarf star. White dwarfs may be small, but don’t be fooled by ...

Astronomers have discovered a new star that is 30 times larger than the sun and could force a major rethink of stellar evolution theories. The star, designated J0524-0336 and located around 30,000 ...

In a system with two known planets, astronomers spotted something new: A small object transiting across the sun-sized star. This turned out to be another planet, which was extra hot and Earth-sized.

At around 700 times the size of the Sun and over 10,000 ... Betelgeuse has entered a more advanced stage of stellar evolution ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

After weeks of rumors and unconfirmed reports, European scientists have officially announced the discovery of an Earth-sized world around the closest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri. Although ...

Astronomers have recently discovered that a distant galaxy called GN-108036 is generating about 100 sun-sized stars a year. Skip to Article. ... Sun-like star. ... During the evolution of the ...

The ideal 'Earth 2.0' will be an Earth-sized, Earth-mass planet at a similar Earth-Sun distance from...[+] a star that's very much like our own. We have yet to find such a world, but are working ...

Two newfound Earth-size planets are probably the charred survivors of a near-death encounter with their fading parent star, scientists say. The planetary pair, discovered using NASA's Kepler space ...

Somewhere out there, astronomers knew the sun had another long-lost relative aimlessly drifting through the Milky Way. Now they've found it. Although a happy reunion is unlikely, as the star HIP ...

Artist’s concept of a Neptune-sized planet, left, around a blue, A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas giant around one of these bright, but short-lived, stars ...