Can a star turn into a planet?

How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

Get sucked into an astronomical mystery as we get in a spin with the universe’s heaviest objects.

WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

The number of planets discovered orbiting other stars stands at over 6,000 and counting, but that’s just the confirmed ones. Many more candidate exoplanets are awaiting verification, some of which are

A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.

Sometime in the next year or so, if predictions are to believed, you’re going to be hearing a lot about a famous star. T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB for short, was the first well-observed nova, blossom