Vanishing stars The discovery was made while observing a peculiar, far-away binary star system known as VFTS 243. This is not your typical system made of a star and some planets, nor your run-off ...
Over the years, astronomers have noticed stars suddenly winking out of sight without any explanation. In 2019, a project called the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations ...
Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests. Researchers have occasionally ...
In the vast expanse of the universe, stars are born, live, and die in a cosmic dance that has captivated astronomers for centuries. While the life cycle of stars is well understood, there are still ...
For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by the sudden disappearance of stars from the night sky. Normally, stars either gradually dim or explode in spectacular supernovae if they are massive ...
Being a sitcom actor and an action star both involve acting, but they don’t have much overlap beyond that. Sure, some action stars drop the occasional quip, or at least they did in the ‘90s ...
Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long-lost jet in Lake Champlain. The corporate ...
Just because Reese Witherspoon doesn't go by her first name doesn't mean she will share it with her friend. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Witherspoon was joined by her "Big Little Lies" co ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a key building block of life at the dawn of the universe, upending what we know about the first galaxies. The discovery — a cloud of carbon in ...
Jeffrey Wright stars at Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a frustrated novelist who, in a drunken fit of rage, pens a satirical book parodying what’s popular, only it becomes a sensation.