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.
3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives ‘a brand new view of an old astronomical friend’
We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky."
The fastest-spinning ‘vampire star’ we know of is shrinking. Soon, it will explode
The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding process is pushing the dead star toward an imminent supernova explosion.
Dead stars can celebrate 2 New Years every second with nearby cosmic fireworks
Celestial fireworks that erupt all year long but last a fraction of a second, fast radio bursts, may have traced them to the immediate surroundings of extreme and highly magnetic dead stars.
Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here’s how.
Astronomers just took a big step toward a better understanding of white dwarfs, a discovery that could shed light on mysterious dark matter.
Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time (image, video)
Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying behemoth star wrapped in a death shroud of gas about to explode.
The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon
The next destination for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is a small space rock in the Kuiper belt called MU69. Now we know it may have an even smaller moon
Bizarre supernova may be powered by hidden disc of dust and gas
A supernova that stayed bright for over three years seemed impossible, but it could be explained if the explosion is running into dense rings of dust and gas
Extreme radiation around small stars may not doom life nearby
Red and white dwarfs make nasty neighbours due to spurts of deadly radiation, but alien life could still form on planets nearby if shielded by smog or oceans