Astronomers have used the XRISM X-ray spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a mystery that has baffled scientists for over 100 years.
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“Failed star” brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

“Cosmic archaeologists” have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.
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With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars.
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As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other’s shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.
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So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month after month, while the Big Dipper always is?
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Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.
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Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth’s magnetosphere is the “magic trick” behind superbright supernovas.
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Our sun and a host of “solar twins” may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life.
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A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the “invisible giant” at the heart of our galaxy.
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