Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:
Astronomy
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Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), a star that has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light under Newtonian gravity
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Dark star (dark matter), a star heated by annihilation of dark matter particles within it
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Dark-energy star, an object composed of dark energy that outwardly resembles a black hole
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Black dwarf
Media and entertainment
Film
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The Dark Star (1919 film), a lost 1919 silent film
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The Dark Star (1955 film), a 1955 West German drama film
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Dark Star (film), a 1974 science fiction comedy film directed by John Carpenter
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Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant
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, a 2014 Swiss documentary
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"Darkstar", a fictional military aircraft in the 2022 film
Television
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Darkstar ( Ben 10), or Michael Morningstar, a character in the Ben 10 franchise
Literature
Comics
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Darkstar (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
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Darkstars, a DC Comics superhero team
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Darkstar Comics, a fictional comic book company in the TV series Spaced
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Dark Star, an issue of the comics series The Transformers
Books
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The Dark Star, a 1917 novel by Robert W. Chambers
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Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon
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The Dark Star, a 1939 novel by Margaret Mackie Morrison, writing as March Cost
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Dark Star, a 1969 novel by Norma K. Hemming, writing as Nerina Hilliard
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Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster
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Dark Star, a 1985 biography about John Gilbert written by his daughter Leatrice Joy-Gilbert
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Dark Star, a 1989 novel by Marcia Muller
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Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn
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Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst
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Dark Star, a 2008 Stony Man novel by Nick Pollotta, writing as Don Pendleton
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Darkstar, a 2011 novella by Christopher R. Howard
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Dark Star, a 2020 book by Jane Holland, an omnibus of the Stella Penhaligon series
Music
Performers
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Dark Star (band), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998–2001
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Darkstar (band), an English electronic duo, formed 2007
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Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band
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Darkstar, a progressive metal band co-founded by Dan Rock of Psychotic Waltz
Albums
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Dark Star (soundtrack), by John Carpenter, 1980
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Dark Star, by Deine Lakaien, 1991
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Dark Star, by The Supernaturals, 1993
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, by the David Murray Octet, 1996
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Dark Star (album), by the Grateful Dead and featuring their song "Dark Star", 2012
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Dark Star, by Jaymes Young, 2013
Songs
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"Dark Star" (song), by the Grateful Dead
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"Dark Star", by Beck from The Information
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"Dark Star", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ
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"Dark Star", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN
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"Dark Star", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions
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"Dark Star", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay
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"Dark Star", by I Am Kloot from Natural History
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"Dark Star", by Mike Oldfield from Tubular Bells II
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"Dark Star", by Poliça from Give You the Ghost
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"Dark Star", by Tarja Turunen from What Lies Beneath
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"Dark Star", by Jaymes Young from his album of the same name
Video games
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DarkStar One, a 2006 video game
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, a 2010 video game
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Dark Star ( No More Heroes), a video game character
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Dark Star, a malevolent artifact in the video game
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Dark Star (1984 video game), a 3D space shoot 'em up for the ZX Spectrum
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Darkstar, a special weapon in the Sci-Fi MMOFPS PlanetSide 2
Technology
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Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar, an unmanned aerial vehicle
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Project Darkstar, a framework for creating massively multiplayer online games
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Tesla Roadster (2008), codenamed DarkStar, an electric sports car
Other uses
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Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, England
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Dark Star (cave), a cave system in Uzbekistan
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Dark Star (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
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Black Star (disambiguation)
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Black Sun (disambiguation)
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Dark Sun (disambiguation)
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Dark (disambiguation)
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Star (disambiguation)
