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Strange Stars Look Suspiciously Like They've Been Eating Planets
An artist's impression of a red dwarf with Earth-like planets. (NASA/ESA/STScI/J. de Wit/MIT) If someone turns up with crumbs ...
Astronomers have identified six red dwarf stars containing unusually high amounts of lithium, an element that should have ...
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Red dwarf stars just got caught eating their own Earth-like planets — six young stars lit up with lithium signatures that could only come from devoured rocky worlds
Somewhere between 50 and 200 million years ago, in three stellar nurseries not far from our corner of the Milky Way, at least ...
Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in ...
Current NASA head Jared Isaacman, himself something of a controversial choice, is determined to get Pluto reclassified as a ...
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Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
Astronomers have found some of the strongest evidence yet that stars can swallow their own planets. A new study, published in ...
A rare type of plutonium has been found in the crust below the deep sea, offering new clues as to how heavy metals form in star explosions and mergers. Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been ...
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