Tags: stars

It’s a dark, clear, moonless night. You look up into the sky. You see thousands of stars arranged in patterns or constellations. The light from these stars has traveled great...

The possibility for alien life increases when two stars are pushed together by a third, according to new research announced Tuesday. Astronomers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K....

Astronomers have captured a remarkable image of two growing exoplanets circling a young star. The newborn planets are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within “a planet-forming disk” surrounding the...

There’s a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of «Tabby’s star,» it would appear. The bizarre long-term dimming of Tabby’s star — also known as Boyajian’s star,...

Well, we always knew the alien-megastructure idea was a long shot. E.T. has nothing to do with the bizarre dimming events of the mysterious object known as Tabby’s star, a...

The sort of small, young, active stars that have become most exciting to astronomers looking for exoplanets may actually push away precisely what could be necessary to carry water to...

The evidence for aliens around one of the weirdest stars in our galaxy — Boyajian’s star — is not looking promising. The star’s unusual dimming events have garnered some bizarre...

How to dominate the universe in three easy steps… Step 1: Harvest all of your planet’s resources. Step 2: Harvest all of your nearest star’s energy. Step 3: Harvest all...

One scientist thinks that future intelligent aliens might survive by collecting, storing and harnessing the power of stars. Dan Hooper, a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in...

Here’s a mind-blowing figure for you: 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In case you’re wondering what all those digits signify, that’s the number of photons — more compactly expressed as 4 x...