New research sheds light on how and when stars in our galaxy made carbon, "ending up within the raw material from which the sun and its planetary system..."

A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre atmosphere is actually two stars that merged. They just narrowly missed exploding into a supernova, researchers say.

Like a real life version of the game Asteroids, the majority of stars will become so luminous that their light causes asteroids to break into smaller bits.