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 ...

China China’s sci-fi spherical Death Star-like robot cop uses AI, facial recognition to track criminals The robots use facial recognition and AI to aid law enforcement with patrol ...

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, ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed intricate details of a dying star's final stages, NASA said Monday. The Ring Nebula images, featuring a glowing halo and vibrant colors ...

O ne of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...