NASA's Kepler space telescope (which operated between 2009 and 2018) and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS (which started operations in 2018), have surveyed many red dwarf stars for ...

Here’s how it works. A red giant is a dying star in the final stages of stellar evolution. In about five billion years, our own sun will turn into a red giant, expand and engulf the inner ...

The brilliant blue-white star lighting up the red nebula Sh2-46 hints at a dynamic and possibly fleeting encounter that could reshape the nebula's appearance over time.

The death of a star is one of the most dramatic and violent events in space – and astronomers had ... real-time look at the death throes of a red supergiant star. While these aren’t the ...

Red supergiants are stars over nine times the mass of our sun ... with accurate distance measurements obtained by the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory, the researchers calculated ...

Using the world’s most powerful radio antenna – the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands – the astronomers discovered signals from 19 distant dwarf red stars. These celestial ...