Scientists are using stellar ‘quakes’ to peer inside stars
Scientists are probing stellar "quakes" to understand what lies beneath the surface of a star's body.
Hold onto your hats! Is the ‘blaze star’ T Corona Borealis about to go boom?
The nova is ignited when a "vampirific" white dwarf steals too much matter from a companion star.
New research on ‘Death Star’ that looks like a cosmic pinwheel reduces gamma-ray burst threat to Earth
The cosmic pinwheel that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once thought.
Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in ‘fluffy’ cosmic blankets
Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.
Einstein Probe’s X-ray vision discovers an ‘impossible’ pair of vampire stars
A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.
Some planet-forming stars never ‘grow up’ and lose their ‘Peter Pan’ disks
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass star, finding it contains chemical signatures never seen before in such a disk.
Mysterious cosmic lights turn out to be 2 undiscovered supernova remnants
The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has identified what's causing mysterious lights in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Scientists ‘dust for fingerprints’ around a young star as it births exoplanets
How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field of an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.
What are boson stars — and what do they have to do with dark matter?
The skies may be full of invisible "boson stars" that could have a connection to dark matter.
A young star may soon disappear: Inside the great dimming of T Tauri
The young protostar T Tauri is about to be eclipsed by a huge disk of gas and dust that could prompt the star to fade or even disappear.