‘Forbidden’ planet somehow escaped consumption by its dying host star
26 January 2023
The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b should have been destroyed when its star became a red giant, but it continues to orbit strangely close to it
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Small explosions called micronovae discovered on dead stars
20 April 2022
Micronovae are about 1 million times less bright than a classical nova and last just half a day, but they release as much energy as the sun would in a day
An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system
21 June 2021
Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get nearly as close to the sun as Saturn by 2031
Planet hotter than most stars spotted 25 light years away
5 March 2021
Astronomers may have detected a planet around one of our closest stars that is potentially the second hottest exoplanet ever found
A dead star may have munched down on an icy exomoon
5 February 2021
We have yet to confirm the existence of moons beyond the solar system, but astronomers say they may have found exomoon remains in the atmosphere of a dead star
An Earth-like planet might orbit our closest single sun-like star
14 January 2021
Tau Ceti is a star just 12 light years away – and it could host a planet called PXP-4 that sits as close to the star as Earth does to our sun with its year about as long as ours
Pluto's tiny moons may have been chipped off its biggest moon
30 June 2020
Pluto has one very large moon, Charon, and four tiny ones, leaving astronomers confused as to how they formed. The answer may be that the quartet used to be part of Charon, not Pluto
