Star formation:
The laws of star formation challenged
Astrochemical dating of stellar nursery
As clouds fall apart, a new star is born
All suns have twins when they are born?
Galactic 'rain' could be key to star formation
X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star
Herschel reveals the hidden side of star birth
Fiirst look at birth places of most current stars
Tracing star formation rates in distant galaxies
Rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxies
Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of stars
Turbulence may promote the birth of massive stars
ALMA catches stellar cocoon with curious chemistry
Hubble's festive view of a grand star-forming region
Warm gas pours 'cold water' on galaxy's star-making
'Cosmic GDP' crashes 97% as star formation slumps
Our neighborhood cosmic bubble drives star formation
Herschel reveals how most stars formed in the Universe
Cosmic environments and their influence in star formation
Intense bursts of star formation drive fierce galactic winds
Astronomers get rare peek at early stage of star formation
Cosmic turbulences result in star and black hole formation
Observatory identifies impact of cosmic chaos on star birth
Close-up view of galaxies prompts re-think of star formation
Hubble survey unlocks clues to star birth in neighboring galaxy
Ten billion years ago, galaxies were already running out of gas
Astronomers witness the birth of a new star from stellar explosion
New theory points to 'zombie vortices' as key step in star formation
Researchers help to explain how stars are born, cosmic structures evolve
Starbirth surprisingly energetic: ALMA observations give new insights into protostars
First stars:
When the first stars blinked on
ANU astronomer discovers oldest star
First of missing primitive stars discovered
New study shows very first stars not monstrous
Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth
Searching the stars for clues to the Universe's origins
Stars formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang
A chemical signature of first generation very massive stars
Sharpest view ever of star formation in the distant Universe
Investigating the early universe through 'stellar archaeology'
And let there be light: looking for the first stars in the Universe
ALMA telescope unveils rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxies
Astronomers get sharpest view ever of star factories in distant Universe
Astronomers find best observational evidence of first-generation stars in the Universe
Newly discovered star offers opportunity to explore origins of first stars sprung to life in early Universe
Massive stars:
Massive star makes waves
Hunting high-mass stars with Herschel
Outbursts from a Milky Way hypergiant
Turbulent relationship amongst massive stars
ALMA disentangles complex birth of giant stars
Herschel probes the dusty history of a giant star
SMA unveils how small cosmic seeds grow into big stars
Students find foundations of galaxy's most massive stars
Massive star formation study: solving a 30-year-old puzzle
A chemical signature of first-generation very-massive stars
A starburst reveals the formation mechanism of massive stars
Close-Up movie shows hidden details in the birth of Super-Suns
Starless cloud cores reveal why some stars are bigger than others
The birth of massive stars is accompanied by strong luminosity bursts
Astronomers show how supergiant stars repeatedly cool and heat up again
Bright/cold stars & gas pools:
New candidate for coldest ‘star’
The brightest stars don't live alone
Cool star marked by long-lived storm
Shining a light on cool pools of gas in the galaxy
Astronomers explain why a star is so hot right now
Missing stars:
The riddle of the missing stars
Why isn't the Universe as bright as it should be?
Cosmic forecast: dark clouds will give way to sunshine
The enigma of the missing stars in space may be solved
High-velocity stars:
The fastest star ever observed
Nearest bright 'hypervelocity star' found
Surprising new class of 'hypervelocity stars' discovered escaping the galaxy
Brown Dwarfs:
The missing brown dwarfs
First weather map of brown dwarf
Are brown dwarfs failed stars or super-planets?
Smaller stars pack big X-ray punch for would-be planets
Dwarf star 200 light-years away contains life's building blocks
Red & White Darfs:
White dwarf lashes red dwarf with mystery ray
The surprising chemistry at the core of a white dwarf
Hubble sees massive comet pollute white dwarf atmosphere
Remarkable white dwarf star possibly coldest, dimmest ever detected
Dead planets around white dwarfs can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years
Aging, dying and dead stars:
Pinpointing the ages of stars
Stars' spins reveal their ages
A new twist on stellar rotation
How to Learn a star's true age
Two dying stars reborn as one
New molecules around old stars
Under the bright lights of an aging sun
A new way to determine the age of stars?
How stellar death can lead to twin celestial jets
Ultra-hot gas around remnants of Sun-like stars
Lopsided star deaths spew matter into the universe
Hubble finds dead stars 'polluted' with planet debris
'Cry' of a shredded star heralds a new era for testing relativity
Scientists discover crucial event right before the death of a star
Sweeping X-ray imaging survey of dying stars is 'uncharted territory'
Exploding stars:
A blast from the past
What happens when stars explode?
Dead stars can 're-ignite' and 'explode'
Astronomers find rare beast by new means
Origin of key cosmic explosions still a mystery
Astronomers find a new class of stellar explosion
Ghosts of ancient explosions live on in stars today
Halo of neutrinos alters physics of exploding stars
Hubble zooms in on schrapnel from an exploding star
Integral catches dead star exploding in a blaze of glory
Record-breaking stellar explosion helps understand far-off galaxy
Supercomputer time allocation to boost simulations of exploding stars
Supernovae:
The new science of novae
A baffling, long-lived supernova
Honing in on supernovae origins
Supernovas help 'clean' galaxies
Lasers create table-top supernova
A supernova cocoon breakthrough
Forecasting a supernova explosion
Nearby supernova factory ramps up
Meet the workaholic star, Betelgeuse
Supernova cleans up its surroundings
Supernova ignition surprises scientists
Peering into the heart of a supernovae
Cosmic dust forms in supernovae blasts
Spectacular supernova's mysteries revealed
How to see a recently discovered supernova
Astronomers discover new kind of supernova
A massive stellar burst, before the supernova
A new way to peer inside supernova remnants
New 3D model could solve supernova mystery
Supernova reserve fuel tank clue to big parents
Mach 1000 shock wave lights supernova remnant
Predicting a supernova precursor (on SN2010mc)
Keck telescope images super-luminous supernova
Magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae in 3D
Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris
Short, sharp shocks let slip the stories of supernovae
Evidence of nearby supernovae affecting life on Earth
Gravitational lens brings an ancient spernova into view
Astronomers see historical supernova from a new angle
Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type II-B supernova
Astronomers discover origin of thermonuclear supernova
Supernova explosion provides clues into expansion of cosmos
NASA's Swift narrows down origin of important supernova class
Astrophysicists catch two supernovae at the moment of explosion
Astronomers observe a supernova colliding with its companion star
Could a Milky Way supernova be visible from Earth in nexr 50 years?
Captured at last: the tiny stars that spark fierce supernovae explosions
New study sheds light on conditions that trigger supernovae explosions
Machine learning helps discover the most luminous supernovs in history
Important clue uncovered for the origins of a type of supernovae explosion
Massive computation for understanding core-collapse supernova explosions
The White Widow Model: a new scenario for the birth of Type 1a supernovae
Japan OISTER collaboration uncovers the origin of extraordinary supernovae
New findings on type 1A supernovae: non-standard birth for a standard candle
Scientists observe the explosion of a monster star requiring new supernova mechanism
A large-scale dynamo and magnetoturbulence in rapidly rotating core-collapse supernovae
Record-shattering cosmic blast coud help crack the case of extreme supernova explosions
The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most type II supernovae
Rapidly rotating white dwarf stars can solve the missing companion problem for type 1A supernovae
Neutron stars:
Neutron star jets shoots down theory
The mystery of neutron stars heats up
A hidden population of exotic neutron stars
Neutron star bites off more than it can chew
Mapping the exotic matter inside neutron stars
When a neutron star may not be a neutron star
In neutron stars, protons may do the heavy lifting
NASA's SWIFT reveals new phenomenon in a neutron star
Fledgling supernova remnant reveals neutron star's secrets
Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions
Astronomers observe first-ever 'kilonova' - collision of two neutron stars
Discovery of 2 types of neutron stars points to 2 different classes of supernovae
Magnetic fields around stars:
Magnetic hide and seek
Monitoring magnetospheres of massive stars
Magnetic waves create chaos in star-forming clouds
Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets
Astronomers measure largest-ever magnetic field around massive star
Magnetic fields play larger role in star formation than previously thought
Magnatars:
What are megnetars?
Why magnetars shoulld freak you out
The most magnetic stars in the Universe
Massive glitch moves magnetar modelling forward
Biggest explosions in the universe powered by strongest magnets
The most magnetic-objects in the Universe attract new controversy
Pulsating stars (Pulsars)
A new kind of pulsar
Hidden in plain sight
The magnetic wake of pulsars
Brightest pulsar ever recorded
The mystery of part-time pulsars
How pulsars slow down with age
A pulsar with a tremendous hiccup
Astronomers find missing link pulsar
Chameleon star baffles astronomers
New kind of variable star discovered
Pulsars: the Universe's gift to physics
Has the speediest pulsar been found?
Pulsar timing uncovers a massive neutron star
NuSTAR helps find universe's brightest pulsars
Scientists discover a new type of pulsating star
Astronomers uncover a 'transformational' pulsar
Modeled plasma discharges produce pulsar emission
Why pulsars shine bright: a half-century-old mystery solved
Researchers question results obtained heretofore in the study of pulsating stars
Young stars:
Explosive growth of young star
JWST images the disk around a young star
Study shows how stars look young when they're not
Young sun's violent history solves meteorite mystery
Sweet building blocks of life found around young star
Ultra-sharp image uncovers the shocking lives of young stars
Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars
Solitary & runaway stars:
Sizing up solitary stars
Runaway stars leave infrared waves in space
Oddball stars & cosmic objects:
Solar salad, anyone?
A Star with Spiral Arms
Hypergiant star Canis Majoris
Hubble solves mystery of monster star's dimming
Newly discovered celestial object defies categories
Mystery object blotted out a giant star for 200 day
What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space?
Astronomers discover first Thorne-Zytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star
Bizarre object hotter than our Sun is orbiting a distant star at breakneck speed
Colliding stars:
Turbulent times: when stars approach
Evolved stars locked in fatalistic dance
Astronomers identify signature of Earth-eating stars
Astronomers discover merging star systems that might explode
Binary stars:
The odd couple
Bright nearby double star is actually a triple
Red explosions reveal secret life of binary stars
Wide binary stars: long distance stellar relationships
New studies give boost to binary-star formation theory
Discovery of binary brown dwarf at 2 parsec from the Sun
Utilizing supercomputers to understand binary neutron star mergers
Did the ancient Egyptians record the period of the eclipsing binary Algol The Raging One?
Star clusters:
Birth of a star quartet
The dark side of star clusters
Lives and deaths of sibling stars
Unlocking the mysteries of 'little starlets'
Entire star cluster thrown out of its galaxy
Most stars are born in clusters, some leave 'home'
NASA delivers new insight into star cluster formation
Globular clusters could nurture interstellar civilizations
Star clusters discovery could upset the astronomical applecart
Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers
Hubble explores the formation and evolution of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Evolution of stars:
Stellar evolution infographic
Shedding light on the growth of stars and black holes
Alternative stellar lifestyle: common, curious, solved at last
Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin
Witnessing turbulent motion in the atmosphere of a distant star
First movie of stellar-surface evolution beyond our Solar System