Mar 28 2013SaveSpace3/28/13Space3/28/13Hey Look We Found Tatooine In Real LifeCasey Chan23SaveFrench astronomers think they found Tatooine in real life and we didn't even have to travel to a galaxy far, far…
Mar 10 2013SaveSpace3/10/13Space3/10/13Rare binary stars help astronomers measure our place in the universeAlasdair Wilkins3SaveWe know that the Milky Way is surrounded by an array of satellite galaxies, the largest of which is the rather aptly…
Jan 6 2013SaveSpace1/6/13 Space1/6/13Why you really don't want to live in a wide binary solar systemAlasdair Wilkins43Save There's an old fringe theory that the Sun isn't our system's only star, that a red dwarf star named Nemesis is…
Jan 11 2012SaveSpace1/11/12 Space1/11/12Two more Tattooine-like planets discovered orbiting double sunsAlasdair Wilkins23Save Back in September, NASA's planet-hunting satellite Kepler made one of its most dramatic discoveries when it…
Jan 2 2012Save1/2/12This nebula might be home to the universe's hottest starAlasdair Wilkins15SaveThis is AB7, a binary star system found in one of the nearby Magellanic Cloud galaxies. The two stars are constantly…
Oct 24 2011SaveSpace10/24/11Space10/24/11Blue straggler stars are eternally young mysteriesAlasdair Wilkins11SaveStars known as blue stragglers have pretty much discovered the cosmic equivalent of the fountain of youth - they…
Sep 15 2011Save9/15/11 This Is the Binary Star Planet We Were Looking ForJesus Diaz37Save have confirmed what it seemed inevitable: a planet orbiting a binary star. It's no Tatooine but a Saturn-sized gas…
Jul 3 2011SaveSpace7/3/11Space7/3/11The short guide to our nearest cosmic neighborsAlasdair Wilkins18SaveLocated just 4.3 light-years away, the Alpha Centauri star system is our closest neighbor. But theirs is a very…
Oct 5 2010SaveSpace10/5/10Space10/5/10Retrograde world could mean there are tons of planets around binary starsAlasdair Wilkins116SaveAstronomers believed that binary star systems were too volatile to support many planets, because the overlapping…