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A dynamo mechanism could explain the incredibly strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars according to an international team of scientists, including a University of Warwick astronomer. One of the...

This overlay shows radio (orange) and infrared images of a giant molecular cloud called W49A, where new stars are being formed. A team of astronomers led by Chris DePree of...

A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what’s possible at the deaths of our Universe’s most massive stars. The team describe the peculiar star and its resulting...

A hunt for hypothetical axions streaming from Betelgeuse turns up empty but helps physicists set constraints on their properties. Deep in its searing hot belly, the giant red star Betelgeuse...

The Galaxy’s most common type of star could host habitable Earth-sized planets. Some of the stars nearest to the Solar System are likely to host planets just like home —...

Sitting for an interview in his office at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the normally voluble astronomer Dimitar Sasselov looks nervous. Asked for his favourite among...

Data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope have revolutionized the search for planets outside the Solar System — and are now doing the same for asteroseismology. Most astronomers gaze at the...

Kepler data spur searches for habitable planets around small, low-temperature stars. The eight 40-centimetre telescopes of MEarth are hunting for Earth analogues around M-dwarf stars. An Earth-like planet — and...

The latest star data from the Gaia space observatory has for the first time allowed astronomers to generate a massive 3-D atlas of widely separated binary stars within about 3,000...

Space scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have found a new way to probe the internal structure of neutron stars, giving nuclear physicists a novel tool for...