"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

If you get away from city lights and witness the astonishing beauty of the night sky, most of the stars you can see are part of what is known as the “main sequence”. The few that aren’t part of it get ...

Today, we know that the sun, along with all other stars, is powered by a reaction called ... In the sun, the extreme pressure produced by its immense gravity create the conditions for fusion to happen ...

"We are able to make miniature stars, 'cause fusion is the same reaction that powers the Sun and stars," said Tammy Ma, who leads the Fusion Energy Initiative at the National Ignition Facility ...

Without the gravity of a star, however, scientists on Earth have spent decades struggling to recreate those same conditions.

It grows in size as the hydrogen fusion moves to the outer layers. This expanded star is known as a red giant ... These can be relatively small, about Earth-sized, but heavy and dense. The gravity is ...