A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year.
Like a sped-up movie, planets orbiting stars that spin rapidly might go through their seasons in double time.
There’s a party in the galactic centre. We may have found the first solid evidence of a dense conference of stars around the Milky Way’s heart, which may one day help us observe the supermassive black hole living there.
Nearly a year after first making headlines around the world, “Tabby’s star” is still guarding its secrets.
A team of researchers affiliated with the Warsaw University Observatory has captured for the first time the events that led to a classical nova exploding, the explosion itself and then what happened afterwards. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they happened to capture the star activity and why they believe it may help bolster the theory of star hibernation.
Unusual X-ray emissions coming from four old red dwarf stars suggest these old fogeys have something in common with our sun: their magnetic fields are weakening over time, new research shows.
Could the sudden disappearance of stars prove of an alien civilization?
Astrophysicists researching the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star HL Tauri discover revealing substructures within the disc that have never been seen before.
The recent spate of gravitational waves may come from pairs of stars that were lifelong companions.
While monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.
