Stevenson 218 is the largest known star in the universe, located about 18,900 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum and far surpassing even the sun in size and brightness. So immense that it ...

When astronomers discovered WOH G64, the star was a red supergiant and possibly the largest extrasolar body known at the time. Back then, astronomers estimated that the star had a radius of 649 ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, some heavier than millions of Earths, are born through fierce struggles ...