Here's our Weekly Space Hangout for July 19, 2013. Watch as a team of space and astronomy journalists discuss the…
If you're a semi-serious amateur astronomer, chances are you've heard of a variable pair of stars called SS Cygni. When you…
Artist's impression of a rocky planet orbiting a red dwarf. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) We may literally be surrounded by…
Artist's concept showing a dust disk around a binary system containing a white dwarf and a less-massive M (red) dwarf…
[/caption] Its often said that the number of grains of sand on Earth equals the number of stars in the…