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White dwarf shreds and vaporises asteroid

21 December 2006

An asteroid has been ripped to shreds and vaporised after straying too close to a hot white dwarf star – one day, the same thing may happen in our solar system

Review 2006: I'm a planet, get me outta here!

19 December 2006

It was easily the most bizarre reality show of the year: 12 contestants, one eviction and a few hundred astronomers on the judging panel

Anatomy of a super-Earth

13 December 2006

Two new worlds are unlike anything we've ever seen before. Â鶹´«Ã½ meets the latest additions to the growing family of planets

Unruly star may be swallowing embryonic planets

15 November 2006

The sudden appearance of a bright cloud near a low-mass star may be evidence of a grisly feast

Bizarre stellar outburst continues to baffle

30 October 2006

New observations suggest a strange brightening of the star V838 Monocerotis in 2002 could not be due to an explosion on a white dwarf, as previously thought

My other universe is a Porsche

4 October 2006

What if the universe we love is just one of many habitable realities? Â鶹´«Ã½ meet the adventurers charting the best of all possible worlds

Feedback

27 September 2006

Brown dwarfs may stretch out exoplanets' orbits

20 September 2006

Many extrasolar planets travel in elongated orbits – gravitational tugs from unseen brown dwarfs may be partly to blame

Former 'tenth planet' named for goddess of discord

14 September 2006

The object that sparked the row over Pluto's status has now been christened 'Eris' after the Greek goddess of discord, who helped start the Trojan War

60 Seconds

13 September 2006