Posted January 3, 2013 - 04:50 by Flora Malein
Astronomers have shed further light on the mysterious process of how young stars and their planetary systems form.
Posted December 10, 2012 - 06:44 by Thomas Anderson
A 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star has revealed that it went through an extremely rare stage called the 'Yellow Evolutionary Void.'
Posted October 5, 2012 - 02:57 by Emma Woollacott
A star has been discovered orbiting tightly round the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, making its circuit in just eleven and a half years.
Posted August 29, 2012 - 07:35 by Emma Woollacott
Sugar molecules have for the first time been spotted in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star.
Posted August 22, 2012 - 03:52 by Emma Woollacott
NASA scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing up a planet, the first time such a thing has ever been observed.
Posted August 8, 2012 - 04:21 by Kate Taylor
Astrophysicists have for the first time detected the X-ray 'scream' from a star as it's consumed by a supermassive black hole.
Posted July 5, 2012 - 04:24 by Emma Woollacott
In just three years, the cloud of dust surrounding a young star has disappeared, indicating that there's something wrong with our current ideas of planet formation.
Posted May 3, 2012 - 04:00 by Kate Taylor
Astronomers have had their best look yet at a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a star.
Posted December 6, 2011 - 07:36 by Kate Taylor
Astronomers say they've discovered their fastest-spinning star, a hot blue giant rotating at a million miles per hour - 100 times faster than our sun.
Posted October 20, 2011 - 04:29 by Kate Taylor
Astronomers have for the first time spotted a disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star that shows spiral-arm-like structures.
Posted September 1, 2011 - 08:44 by Emma Woollacott
A team of European astronomers have discovered a star that by rights shouldn't exist - it's simply not dense enough for current models to explain its formation.
Posted August 25, 2011 - 04:32 by Kate Taylor
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole in the act of shredding and consuming a star 3.9 billion light years away.
Posted June 17, 2011 - 04:50 by Kate Taylor
A mysterious gamma ray flash observed by the Swift satellite in late March was probably caused by a star being swallowed by a massive black hole, astronomers have concluded.
Posted May 12, 2011 - 04:37 by Kate Taylor
Scientists believe they've worked out why some extrasolar planets orbit in the opposite direction to their star's rotation.
Posted April 25, 2011 - 04:44 by Emma Woollacott
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have made the heaviest antimatter ever found.
Posted September 15, 2010 - 06:22 by Staff writer
An astronomer says he's caught a star in the act of chewing up a companion and spitting out a second generation of exoplanets.
Posted July 21, 2010 - 06:42 by Staff writer
Astronomers have discovered the biggest star ever - more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, and twice as large as the generally accepted limit of 150 solar masses.
Posted June 18, 2010 - 03:16 by Emma Woollacott
What could be the youngest known star has been photographed in the earliest stages of being born.
Posted March 17, 2010 - 15:52 by A STAFF WRITER
Astronomers have discovered a gas-giant exoplanet locked into a circular orbit around its parent star.
