Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that ...

A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of ancient stars on orbits similar to that of our sun. They formed the Milky Way's thin ...

BlueMUSE will provide detailed observations within the Milky Way and our galactic neighbourhood, helping study targets as ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution. A new study ...

R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are an exceptionally rare class of hydrogen‐deficient, carbon‐rich supergiants noted for their dramatic, irregular declines in brightness caused by episodic dust ...

To understand how the universe was formed and how we got here, ancient stars are some of the best objects to study — yet astronomers know surprisingly little about the conditions in which they were ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.