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Life

Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

We’ve just found a potentially habitable exoplanet nearby, but monthly violent outbursts from the star Proxima Centauri could be bad news for life

Galaxies

Space

Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars

The galaxy M82

Space

Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years

Red star surrounded by ordinary white stars. V838 Monocerotis, another red nova which erupted in 2002

Space

Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust

Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

Space

Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way

artist's impression of planets around a red dwarf star

Space

Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end

Flickr pix

Space

Cosmological conceits blossom under Finland’s midnight sun

V883 Orionis's protoplanetary disc

Space

Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

Artist's impression of an alien world

Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

Finding extraterrestrial civilisations with technology far beyond our own could be as simple as catching stars or galaxies in a disappearing act

Space

Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world

Space

Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves

Space

Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets

Space

Tadpole galaxy spawns stars after eating invisible gas cloud