stars

A solar system that looks like ours … after Earth gets destroyed.

Strange radio signals from red dwarfs could be the start of a whole new way to look for exoplanets.

It won't go quietly into the night.

Binary star mergers could cause explosive stellar deaths.

They could help astronomers break down the category of objects known as brown dwarfs.

All astronomers need is a flickering disk.

Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

They found the dimmer switch.

Dark Sky Places help us imagine a world where we can all see the night sky.

This photo isn’t of your typical starry night—each one of these dots is a supermassive black hole.