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Evidence for a ‘forbidden range’ of black hole masses emerges in gravitational wave observations

Stars in this range may form a long-predicted type of supernova instead

Artist's impression of a star exploding. The star is a bright blue spiky burst of light, and it appears against a star-dotted black background. Two circular areas of the background, representing a black hole binary, are completely black and starlight is warped around them.

Solar storms could be forecast by monitoring cosmic rays

Forbush decrease effect is tracked between the Sun and Earth

Astronomers observe a coronal mass ejection from a distant star

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for the search for extraterrestrial life

An artist’s impression of a large red star releasing a bright, explosive burst of light. Swirling red and orange patterns surround the star, suggesting intense activity. In the background, a smaller blue planet appears with a faint, wispy trail extending away from it, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. The scene is set against a dark space backdrop dotted with stars.

Plasma bursts from young stars could shed light on the early life of the Sun

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth

Young rogue planet grows like a star

Telescope observations reveal material accreting onto the planet Cha1107-7626 in a way that resembles the infancy of stars

Artist's impression of a rogue planet surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. The planet and its surrounding dust glow red-orange against the blackness of space

Laser-driven implosion could produce megatesla magnetic fields

Simulations of improved technique generate fields as strong as those found near neutron stars

Conceptual illustration of bladed microtube implosion, showing how sawtooth-like blades inside the cylindrical target drive strong loop currents (shown as a pinkish swirl) and generate strong magnetic fields (shown as bright yellow loops around the target)

Too-close exoplanet triggers flares from host star

New observations are the first direct evidence of planets influencing their stars rather than just passively orbiting them

Infographic entitled "Clingy planets can trigger their own doom". It shows a planet passing close to its host star and perturbing the star's magnetic field, triggering a flare that blasts away the planet's wispy atmosphere and causing it to shrink over time

Astronomers observe the biggest booms since the Big Bang

"Extreme nuclear transients" from tidally disrupted heavy stars release more energy than 100 supernovae

A bright image of two circular objects, one in a blue colour and the other in an orange colour. A thin trail of material leads from the blue object (the star) to the orange object (the black hole that's accreting the material)

Short-lived eclipsing binary pulsar spotted in Milky Way

Rare sighting could allow astronomers to test theories of binary star systems

Two stars orbiting each other in the night sky

New analysis of M67 cluster helps decode the sound of stars

Acoustic oscillations in M67 stars reveal a surprising plateau in frequency patterns, providing a new tool to probe stellar interiors and refine age estimates

Artistic impression of acoustic waves in a star

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