# 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

## Media and entertainment
### 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

### Literature
#### 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

### 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

### 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