Vast worlds called brown dwarfs have extraordinarily powerful winds
9 April 2020
Brown dwarfs, which are halfway between huge planets and small stars, have extremely powerful winds whipping around them at speeds of about 650 metres per second
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Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface
30 March 2020
Pluto’s ancient oceans may have come about just after the icy world was born, melting from ice in a process that suggests the dwarf planet took just 30,000 years to form
Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life
12 March 2020
Proxima Centauri b, a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, is being blasted with cosmic rays and solar flares – which could make it warm enough to host life
Weird star was born when two white dwarfs merged instead of blowing up
2 March 2020
White dwarf stars are common in the galaxy, but astronomers have found one that doesn't seem to obey the rules. They think it was born when two smaller white dwarfs merged together
An exoplanet is generating radio waves from its red dwarf sun
17 February 2020
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet by detecting radio waves generated by interactions with its parent star
Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards
5 February 2020
Every day on Pluto, nitrogen puffs out the icy world’s heart-shaped plain into the atmosphere, and every night it refreezes, creating winds unlike any we’ve seen before
A star exploded into a supernova but it weirdly isn't very bright
3 February 2020
Astronomers have spotted a star that is exploding with a brightness 100 times less than expected – and it’s a mystery exactly why the explosion is so dim
Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?
1 January 2020
There is no law of physics dictating that dark matter and dark energy can’t be connected, and it is natural to wonder about it, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Pigeons and woolly hats now have exoplanets named after them
17 December 2019
More than 100 exoplanets and the stars they orbit have just been officially named by a public vote. The names reference woolly hats, bush pigeons, coffee and van Gogh
How to find Andromeda – a spiral galaxy you can see with the naked eye
11 December 2019
Amazingly, it is possible to see the spiral arms of Andromeda, our nearest galaxy 2.5 million light years away – if you just know where to look
