Spacelines From The Far Out is a new video game that simulates commercial space travel, but how realistic is its portrayal? We spoke to space historian and author Rod Pyle to find out.

Caplan calculates that the most massive black dwarfs will explode first, followed by progressively less massive stars, until there are no more left to go off after about 10 32000 years.

Most of the stars of the far future will be much less massive and less luminous than the sun. Fortunately, even a low-mass, dim star can allow life to flourish.

The universe is brimming with galaxies packed with stars – but one day, they'll all go out Credit: NASA Thankfully this terrifying dead universe is so far in the future that you won't have to ...

Those far-flung positions are very unlikely to be where these putative worlds started out, however; as stars die and lose mass, their gravitational grip on their planets weakens, and the planets ...

To go beyond the first stars, or to arrive at a cosmic destination where no ultraviolet or visible light can pass through the opaque, intergalactic medium, you need to probe what's actually there.

And while they don’t play a large role now, in the far distant future when these heavier elements become more commonplace inside of stars, they can mess with their fusion reactions.

The most massive and luminous stars were long suspected to explode when they die, and astronomers now have the most direct evidence yet that these cosmic behemoths go out with a bang.