Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:

Astronomy

  • Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), a star that has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light under Newtonian gravity
  • Dark star (dark matter), a star heated by annihilation of dark matter particles within it
  • Dark-energy star, an object composed of dark energy that outwardly resembles a black hole
  • Black dwarf

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

  • Darkstar (Marvel Comics), a comic book superhero
  • Darkstars, a DC Comics superhero team
  • Darkstar Comics, a fictional comic book company in the TV series Spaced
  • "Darkstar", a fictional military aircraft in the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick
  • Darkstar (Ben 10), or Michael Morningstar, a character in the Ben 10 franchise
  • Dark Star (No More Heroes), a video game character
  • Dark Star, a malevolent artifact in the video game Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
  • Darkstar, a special weapon in the Sci-Fi MMOFPS PlanetSide 2

Film and television

  • The Dark Star (1919 film), a lost 1919 silent film
  • The Dark Star (1955 film), a 1955 West German drama film
  • Dark Star (film), a 1974 science fiction comedy film
  • Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant
  • Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World, a 2014 Swiss documentary

Gaming

  • DarkStar One, a 2006 video game
  • Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, a 2010 video game
  • Dark Star (1984 video game), for the ZX Spectrum

Literature

  • Dark Star, an issue of the comics series The Transformers
  • The Dark Star, a 1917 novel by Robert W. Chambers
  • Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon
  • The Dark Star, a 1939 novel by Margaret Mackie Morrison, writing as March Cost
  • Dark Star, a 1969 novel by Norma K. Hemming, writing as Nerina Hilliard
  • Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster
  • Dark Star, a 1985 biography about John Gilbert written by his daughter Leatrice Joy-Gilbert
  • Dark Star, a 1989 novel by Marcia Muller
  • Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn
  • Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst
  • Dark Star, a 2008 Stony Man novel by Nick Pollotta, writing as Don Pendleton
  • Darkstar, a 2011 novella by Christopher R. Howard
  • Dark Star, a 2020 book by Jane Holland, an omnibus of the Stella Penhaligon series

Music

Performers

  • Dark Star (band), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998–2001
  • Darkstar (band), an English electronic duo, formed 2007
  • Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band
  • Darkstar, a progressive metal band co-founded by Dan Rock of Psychotic Waltz

Albums

  • Dark Star (soundtrack), by John Carpenter, 1980
  • Dark Star, by Deine Lakaien, 1991
  • Dark Star, by The Supernaturals, 1993
  • Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead, by the David Murray Octet, 1996
  • Dark Star (album), by the Grateful Dead and featuring their song "Dark Star", 2012
  • Dark Star, by Jaymes Young, 2013

Songs

  • "Dark Star" (song), by the Grateful Dead
  • "Dark Star", by Beck from The Information
  • "Dark Star", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ
  • "Dark Star", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN
  • "Dark Star", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions
  • "Dark Star", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay
  • "Dark Star", by I Am Kloot from Natural History
  • "Dark Star", by Mike Oldfield from Tubular Bells II
  • "Dark Star", by Poliça from Give You the Ghost
  • "Dark Star", by Tarja Turunen from What Lies Beneath
  • "Dark Star", by Jaymes Young from his album of the same name

Technology

  • Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar, an unmanned aerial vehicle
  • Project Darkstar, a framework for creating massively multiplayer online games
  • Tesla Roadster (first generation), codenamed DarkStar, an electric sports car

Other uses

  • Dark Star Brewing Company, in West Sussex, England
  • Dark Star (cave), a cave system in Uzbekistan
  • Dark Star (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

  • Black Star (disambiguation)
  • Black Sun (disambiguation)
  • Dark Sun (disambiguation)
  • Dark (disambiguation)
  • Star (disambiguation)