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Hundreds of 'ghost stars' haunt the Milky Way's center. Scientists may finally know why.
Ghostly nebulas created by exploding stars appear to align in the Milky Way's bulging center. Astronomers may finally know why.
Tiny, 'ultracool' star emits surprising radio signals that it should not be capable of producing
The brown dwarf, which is colder than a typical campfire, produces regular radio wave pulses despite having a magnetic field that, in theory, should be too weak to create them.
Mirror-like exoplanet that 'shouldn't exist' is the shiniest world ever discovered
A distant planet named LTT9779 b reflects 80% of its star's light, making the strange world with metal clouds the biggest known "mirror" in the universe.
Scientists discover the fastest stars ever seen in the Milky Way
Astronomers discovered a new population of ultra-fast-moving stars, including the fastest 'runaway' star ever seen in our galaxy.
Are we really all made of stars?
Carl Sagan famously proclaimed that humans are 'made of star stuff'. Here's what he meant — and why it's true.
This collapsed star is turning into a gigantic diamond before our eyes
Scientists have found a white dwarf that is cooling and crystallizing into a giant diamond.
Dying stars build humongous 'cocoons' that shake the fabric of space-time
New simulations show that dying stars release enormous "cocoons" of gas that may rattle with space-time ripples called gravitational waves.
There may be hundreds of millions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, new study suggests
A new analysis of Kepler data shows that one-third of small stars called M dwarfs may have the potential to host life.
