An alien world near Earth is being trailed by a gigantic tail, stretching longer than 40 Earths as it closely circles its home star. The enormous structure, which is made up of gas leaking from the ...

New high-resolution observations with the VLT Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory in Chile reveal gas infall and outflow processes in the direct environment of six young stars. The ...

"Our estimated mass-loss rates can be used as a benchmark for stellar wind models and expand our limited observational evidence for the winds of sun-like stars." When you purchase through links on our ...

High-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) constitute a crucial class of astrophysical systems in which a massive, early-type star transfers matter to a compact object—commonly a neutron star or black hole—via ...

Some stars have stellar winds boasting speeds as great as 5 million miles per hour, deeming even their "habitable zone" planets as not so friendly to life. When you purchase through links on our site, ...