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A burnign red star emerges from a green fog of gas in a dark and distant galaxy

Scientists discover the fastest stars ever seen in the Milky Way

By Ben Turner published

Astronomers discovered a new population of ultra-fast-moving stars, including the fastest 'runaway' star ever seen in our galaxy.

Astronomy
A wall of green was blooms at the center of a colorful supernova remnant

Are we really all made of stars?

By Remy Melina last updated

Carl Sagan famously proclaimed that humans are 'made of star stuff'. Here's what he meant — and why it's true.

Cosmology
An illustration of a bright blue white dwarf star, revealing a hard crystalline core

This collapsed star is turning into a gigantic diamond before our eyes

By Stephanie Pappas published

Scientists have found a white dwarf that is cooling and crystallizing into a giant diamond.

Cosmology
a star blasting multi-colored jets of energy out of its left and right side against a background of dark space

Dying stars build humongous 'cocoons' that shake the fabric of space-time

By Briley Lewis published

New simulations show that dying stars release enormous "cocoons" of gas that may rattle with space-time ripples called gravitational waves.

Black Holes
A rocky planet orbits a small, red star known as a red dwarf -- the most common type of star in the galaxy.

There may be hundreds of millions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, new study suggests

By Briley Lewis published

A new analysis of Kepler data shows that one-third of small stars called M dwarfs may have the potential to host life.

Exoplanets
A spiral galaxy in deep space.

Watch the biggest supernova in 10 years explode tonight on this free telescope livestream

By Robert Lea published

A newly discovered supernova can be watched as it develops in real-time online and for free. The livestream will begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) on Friday, May 26.

Space
A bright collective of millions of stars, scattered around the edges bu combining to look like one big star at the center

James Webb Telescope finds evidence of 'celestial monster' stars the size of 10,000 suns lurking at the dawn of time

By Ben Turner published

The James Webb Space Telescope has found key chemical fingerprints of supermassive stars just 440 million years after the Big Bang.

Cosmology
This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various atoms.

Astronomers find remnants of the oldest stars in the universe

By Joanna Thompson published

A gas cloud 13 billion light-years away may be the resting place of some of the earliest stars in the universe.

Cosmology
Illustration of a star being 'spaghettified' by a supermassive black hole. Red blouds of material from teh star stretch and curve toward the black hole's center

Scientists discover closest star-shredding black hole to Earth ever seen

By Briley Lewis published

Astronomers comparing maps of the universe uncovered the nearest example of a black hole devouring a star ever detected.

Black Holes
An illustration of a 'runaway black hole' zooming away from its galaxy, with a trail of stars following behind it.

'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns caught speeding through space with a trail of newborn stars behind it

By Robert Lea last updated

Astronomers have discovered a "runaway" black hole, potentially the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their host galaxies.

Black Holes
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