A ‘failed star’ 1,350 light years away may hold clues about what makes other stars succeed.
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A failed star just taught us something new about the search for alien life.
Some planets are rejected by the Solar System that gave birth to them.
The discovery of a huge planet orbiting a small star challenges our understanding of planet formation.
The ‘oldest known nova’ (a star explosion) in the sky was actually not a nova, astronomers show.
We don’t need to look for Earth-like planets exclusively around Sun-like stars. Tiny, dim TRAPPIST-1 has only 11 percent the diameter of the Sun and is much redder.
Recent Martian findings are just the latest discoveries of aurora on other planets, both in and out of our solar system.
Author Douglas Adams famously had his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy remark that “space is really big”. But to my mind the sheer vastness of space is better encapsulated in the recent announcement of…
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