If, he thought ruefully, the stars ever existed at all.

Though stars worthy of the name still exist, there are fewer than press agents would have us believe, and most of them don't last.

Before the discovery of Kepler-47c, it was thought that binary stars with multiple planets could not exist.

Many more such homeless stars presumably exist in the region but are too dim to see.

"Yet without the darkness," said Palin suddenly, "we would never be aware that the stars exist."

The earth and stars and sun, all that was or will be, existed for his sake.

Hence, as larger stars will exist for shorter periods, this galaxy has an age of more than 300 million years.

Today, what with light pollution in cities and cloudy skies, we often live as if the stars did not exist.

Could the star have existed without the machine?

As of 2002 there is no significant evidence that such a star exists.