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Deep Space

Are brown dwarfs more like stars or planets?

Planets, stars or something entirely different? We take a look to see what brown dwarfs are

Deep Space

Solved! How the universe’s biggest stars become massive

Astronomers have obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disc feeding the growth of a massive baby star

Deep Space

What happens when a star’s fuel runs out?

We find out what happens when a star uses up all of its fuel

Deep Space

Why are neutron stars so heavy?

We investigate why this is the case

Deep Space

Are planetary nebulae made by supernovae?

We find out if these beautiful structures are made by the titanic explosion of massive stars

Deep Space

Can stars have weather?

We have the answer to this intriguing question

FutureTech

What is a Dyson Sphere?

Meet the future technology that could harness power and energy from a star in the most unusual way

Deep Space

Can we work out an exoplanet’s colour?

We’re able to detect them but is it possible to figure out the colours of the distant worlds we find?

Solar System

What path do comets follow through the Solar System?

We find out the type of route a comet takes through the solar neighbourhood

Space Exploration

NASA Parker Solar Probe blasts off for mission to ‘touch the Sun’

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, the car-sized spacecraft launched from Florida to begin its journey

Deep Space

How loud would stars be if space was full of air?

If we could hear in space, how far from a star would we need to be to hear it?

Deep Space

What are the dark shapes that I can see in the Orion Nebula?

We zoom in on the famous nebula to find out

Deep Space

Famous exploded star revealed with incredible clarity

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has imaged the intricate and energetic features within the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

Deep Space

Astronomers discover star that won’t die

Supernovae traditionally occur once at the end of a star’s life, but this particular star has exhibited multiple supernovae over the last three years

Deep Space

The making of TRAPPIST-1’s Earth-sized planets uncovered

The system has seven planets as big as our world that orbit close to their star

News

Space telescope ‘hears’ stellar heartbeat from a planetary companion

“Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have discovered the first example of a planet that seems to be causing a heartbeat-like behaviour in its host star”

News

Baby star’s strange geometry assists in solving evolution puzzle

New clues to understanding how dust can find its way to the surface of a forming star have been uncovered

News

Giant rings around exoplanet found to turn the wrong way

Researchers who were previously involved in the discovery of a ringed alien world have now calculated that the giant rings may persist more than 100,000 years

Solar System

Watch a double eclipse through the camera of a NASA spacecraft

Earth completely eclipsed the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s perspective just as the Moon began its journey across the face of our star

News

Three giant planets discovered in orbit around Sun’s twins

The findings may help explain the influence that giant planets like Jupiter have over a Solar System’s architecture

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