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Stellar superflares’ trigger challenged
Massive eruptions on sunlike stars might not require magnetic interactions from a big, hot, nearby planet.
By Nadia Drake - Astronomy
Sun’s shock wave goes missing
Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment.
By Nadia Drake - Space
More than one way to explode a star
New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production.
By Nadia Drake -
- Astronomy
A star is torn
A black hole’s stellar feast is witnessed by telescopes on Earth and in orbit.
By Nadia Drake - Astronomy
Ancient scribes may have banked on blinking binary
For the Egyptians, luck may have been written in the Demon Star.
By Nadia Drake - Humans
A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results
Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Earth took a multibillion-year beating
Asteroids pummeled the planet for billions of years as the Late Heavy Bombardment tapered off, new estimates suggest.
By Nadia Drake - Astronomy
Dark matter search turns up empty
New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Hunt for cosmic ray source falls short
After failure to detect neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts, scientists might need to revise theories.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Tall, devilish storm skids across Mars’ surface
Probe captures 20-kilometer dust devil in action.
By Devin Powell -