Kilonova explosions created when neutron stars collide and merge are perfectly spherical, not flattened discs as previously expected, a new study suggests.

The Death Star is a near-perfect sphere, a hundred miles across, with a planet-vaporizing laser. In Orlin's version, Lord Vader nixed design shapes like pyramids, cubes, or a cylindrical Death ...

A spherical star cluster has surprisingly few heavy elements. Called RBC EXT8, the cluster challenges some theories of how galaxies form and evolve. Globular clusters contain some of the oldest, ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers a delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a globular cluster. Mutual ...

It begs the question: how does a spherical star create such intricate and delicate non-spherical structures?" "The Ring Nebula is an ideal target to unravel some of the mysteries of planetary nebulae.

Kepler 11145123 isn’t the punchline to a “yo momma” joke — it’s a large, almost perfectly spherical star some 5,000 light-years away from Earth.

Oldest known star discovered, Science Online, 11 Feb 2014 Star that shouldn't exist found , Science Online, 02 Sep 2011 Dead stars feeding off the living , Science Online, 12 Aug 2011 ...

Astronomers once thought that an ordinary star such as our Sun would simply blast gas randomly into space when it died. But this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope of an exploded star known ...

I'm all for poking some (occasionally not so) gentle fun at movie physics, but this one feels a bit stretched. First up, the Death Star is pretty much a straight copy of Fred Saberhagen's ...