One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet stellar ember into a cosmic heavyweight. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

For decades, astronomers have believed they understood how giant stars scatter the chemical building blocks of life across ...