20 February 2025
A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may be getting ready to explode in a supernova
22 June 2023
The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole are already tough to explain – but there also seems to be some stars missing
22 June 2023
We know there are stars moving fast enough to escape the Milky Way, so the same is probably true of other galaxies. Now, simulations suggest there could be almost 4000 stars from the Andromeda galaxy in the Milky Way today
18 June 2023
A distant star called FU Orionis has been shining extraordinarily bright for the last 85 years, and it may be because it is incinerating a young, nearby planet that could be fully consumed in another 300 years
14 June 2023
Astronomers have spotted white dwarfs moving faster than any free-moving star seen before – so fast they must have been launched by supernovae
26 April 2023
Astronomers have found one huge star eating another, but the smaller star is predicted to eventually become a black hole and go on to feed off its companion
26 January 2023
Other intelligent civilisations may send transmissions after a bright galactic event like a supernova to make them more visible to others, according to SETI researchers
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
10 January 2023
A group of ancient galaxies examined by the James Webb Space Telescope contain an order of magnitude fewer stars than expected and they are strangely dim
8 November 2022
The centre of the Milky Way is home to more than 100 young stars that shouldn’t exist. Researchers may have now finally figured out how they formed
