The terms Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:
Astronomy
- Dark star, a theoretical star whose gravity is strong enough to trap light, mostly superseded by the concept of "black holes".
- Dark star (dark matter), a more modern theoretical type of star that may have existed early in the history of the universe.
Popular culture
- Dark Star (band), an English rock band
- Dark Star (film), a 1974 film directed by John Carpenter
- "Dark Star" (song), a song by the Grateful Dead
- "Dark Star", a song by Harold Budd
- "Dark Star", a song by Beck
- "Dark Star", a song by Deine Lakaien
- "Dark Star", a song on the Crosby, Stills & Nash album CSN
- "Dark Star", the second movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II
- Darkstar (comics), a Marvel superhero and sometimes villain
- Darkstars, a DC Comics superhero team
- Dark Star (novel), a novel by Alan Furst
- An alternate name for The Rappers Rap Group, a group of rap artists in the 1980s
- Dark Star (Slayers), a villain from the fantasy anime series Slayers Try
- Dark Star (magazine), a British rock magazine that also featured early work by Alan Moore and the first appearance of Axel Pressbutton
- Darkstar (Comics), is the fictional comic book company that the character Tim Bisley in the British television show Spaced dreams to be employed at.
Technology
- Darkstar Communications, an International Ventrilo, Teamspeak, and Gaming provider
- DarkStar, code name of the Tesla Roadster electric sports car
- Darkstar, default hostname in Slackware
- Project Darkstar, Sun's free game server framework
- RQ-3 Dark Star, a military drone developed by the United States
Computer and video games
- Dark Star (computer game), a ZX Spectrum game by Design Design
- Dark Star (C64 game), a game for the Commodore 64
- Darkstar One, a computer game released in 2006
- Darkstar (computer game), a computer game currently under development
Other
- Dark Star (brewery), in Sussex, England.
- Dark Star (horse), an American racehorse who won the 1953 Kentucky Derby
- Dark Star (bass pickup), a bass guitar pickup by Hammon Engineering
- Eugene DarkStar, a club Ultimate frisbee team
- Darkstar Skateboards, a skateboarding company
- Dark Star Leather, a customer leather shop in Tucson, AZ. est 1972
- DarkStar Comics (store), a gaming store that used to be in Huntington Beach, CA.
- Darkstar (Comics), is the fictional comic book company that Tim Bisley from the British television show Spaced dreams to be employed at.
