May 1, 2018
TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven "Earth-like" planets
In 2017, astronomers discovered seven planets orbiting a star dubbed TRAPPIST-1, a faint red dwarf 40 light-years from Earth and only 9 percent …
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April 20, 2015
Mysterious rapid radio burst captured live
Last year, astronomers received a signal from the depths of the cosmos: a fleeting pulse of intense electromagnetic radiation known as a fast …
August 19, 2014
Twinkle, twinkle new little star
What’s red, sparkly and far from home? Not Dorothy’s shoes, but a Thorne-Zytkow object (TZO), a type of hybrid star theorized since 1975 to exist …