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Planet spiralling into star may offer glimpse into Earth’s end

Astronomers have identified a planet that is spiralling towards a cataclysmic collision with its ageing sun for the first time. It is providing a glimpse into how Earth might end one day. A team of mostly US-based researchers said in a new study published on...

Cosmic chocolate pralines? General neutron star structure revealed

Neutron stars are extremely compact objects that can form after a star dies. Their interiors, however, are unknown. Scientists have been attempting to decipher their structure since their discovery. The most difficult challenge is simulating the extreme conditions inside neutron stars. It can barely be...

Researchers found evidence Neutron star HESS J1731-347 may be a ‘strange’ star

HESS J1731-347, an extremely tiny neutron star discovered by researchers at the Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik in Germany, maybe a "strange" star.

Astronomers discover two ‘super-Earths’ orbiting nearby star

Two brand-new "super-Earth" exoplanets have been found, according to a global team of astronomers, and they are in close proximity to a late-type M dwarf star. The two recently discovered alien worlds, LP 890-9 b and LP 890-9 c, are slightly bigger than Earth....

Star with the shortest orbital period around black hole discovered

The fastest known star, discovered by researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), travels around a black hole in record time. S4716 orbits Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way, in four years...

The puzzling link between star formation and radio emission in galaxies

On the 50th anniversary of the discovery of a close relationship between galaxies' star formation and their infrared and radio radiation, researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have now deciphered the underlying physics. They used novel computer simulations of galaxy formation...