Dark Star

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

Film

 * 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 directed by John Carpenter
 * Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant
 * Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World, a 2014 Swiss documentary
 * "Darkstar", a fictional military aircraft in the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick

Television

 * Darkstar (Ben 10), or Michael Morningstar, a character in the Ben 10 franchise

Comics

 * Darkstar (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
 * Darkstars, a DC Comics superhero team
 * Darkstar Comics, a fictional comic book company in the TV series Spaced
 * Dark Star, an issue of the comics series The Transformers

Books

 * 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

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

Video games

 * DarkStar One, a 2006 video game
 * Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, a 2010 video game
 * Dark Star (No More Heroes), a character in the video game No More Heroes
 * Dark Star, a malevolent artifact in the video game Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
 * Dark Star (1984 video game), a 3D space shoot 'em up for the ZX Spectrum written by Simon Brattel for Design Design Software
 * Darkstar, special weapon in a Sci-Fi MMOFPS PlanetSide 2

Technology

 * Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar, an unmanned aerial vehicle
 * Project Darkstar, a framework for creating massively multiplayer online games
 * Tesla Roadster (2008), codenamed DarkStar, an electric sports car

Other uses

 * Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, England
 * Dark Star (cave), a cave system in Uzbekistan
 * Dark Star (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse