NASA's TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has one main job: finding exoplanets. But it's also helping astronomers study a…
Stars exhibit all sorts of behaviors as they evolve. Small red dwarfs smolder for billions or even trillions of years.…
We tend to think of our Earthly circumstances as normal. A watery, temperate world orbiting a stable yellow star. A…
Astronomers have discovered a large Neptune-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is four times bigger than the…
Hosts:Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)Sondy Springmann (@sondy)Beth Johnson (@planetarypan)Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) This week we welcome Dr. Marina Kounkel, a postdoctoral…
Despite all we know about the formation and evolution of the Universe, the very early days are still kind of…
Stars live and die on epic time scales. Tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years, even billions…
We learned how to figure out the ages of objects in the Solar System, now we push out into the…
A new study by an international team reveals that Eta Carinae will soon be so bright that we won't be…
The Sun. It's a big ball of fire, right? Apparently not. In fact, what's going on inside of the Sun…