A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar – a highly magnetic…
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All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be because of the sun
Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface have disappeared, and…
Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent the speed of light
When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an…
A guide to cosmic fireworks, from stellar flares to black-hole beacons
Far from serene, the night sky is a riot of spectacular bangs and flashes that reveal…
Could a gravitational wave rip apart an entire planet?
When we detect gravitational waves, it’s because they are warping space and time by a tiny…
Aliens on low-oxygen worlds may never discover fire
Low levels of oxygen on planets where alien life could potentially evolve may make developing technology…
Giant star rocked by waves three times larger than our sun
A binary star system shines 20 per cent more brightly every time the smaller star gets…
Storms on Saturn are so huge that their traces last hundreds of years
Every couple of decades Saturn develops a huge storm, and now researchers have found that the…
What are the weirdest stars in the universe?
Exotic stars may be scattered throughout the cosmos, from boson stars that could look like black…
The most distant individual star ever seen may actually be two stars
The James Webb Space Telescope has made new observations of Earendel, the most distant single star…