You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. A strange star deep in space has been left with a metallic scar across its surface after eating one of its own planets.

That’s because a bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of the Milky Way appears to be much younger than expected. “These metal-rich stars are basically like fossil records of ancient ...

Astronomers have discovered ultra-weak magnetic fields in Beta Ursae Majoris and Theta Leonis, two metallic-line stars. Obtained from deep spectropolarimetric analysis, the results may be proof ...

An astronomer at the California Institute of Technology has discovered that some stars — maybe as many as 1 in 10,000 — are made entirely of metal. It’s the latest finding in a series of ...