Most Universe Today readers are familiar with nebulae. They're gaseous structures lit up with radiation from nearby stars, and they're…
What causes an otherwise unremarkable star to become over 100 times brighter? That's a question astronomers have been pondering since…
New research shows that other sunlike stars in our galaxy aren't so kind to their planets. Up to a quarter…
A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our…
In the past decade, the discovery of extrasolar planets has accelerated immensely. To date, 4,424 exoplanets have been confirmed in…
In this week’s edition of new unexplained astronomical phenomena, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Leigh Smith from Cambridge…
A red giant star may have a black hole companion that is only three solar masses in size.
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can…
Dancing is a favorite pastime of many couples. Swinging around a dance floor, using the laws of physics to twirl…
Chandrasekhar found there is an upper limit for the mass of a white dwarf, but some white dwarfs can break…