Space
The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star
An exoplanet discovered orbiting a massive, scorching star 650 light years away is so hot that even its nightside hits temperatures higher than some stars
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Space
Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star
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Space
Strange cosmic radio burst pinned down to giant stellar nursery
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Space
Tangoing pairs of hungry supermassive black holes grow in number
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Space
Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought
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Space
Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
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Space
Neutron stars that slow down could be eating ‘backwards’ gas
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Space
Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how
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Space
The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life
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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar
We may have found a fresh way to spot the spinning corpses of massive stars, using the glow of interstellar gas – and maybe a new class of pulsar too
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Physics
Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy
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Physics
Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star
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Space
The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave
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Physics
Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements
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