Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Oh NASA, your nerdy space musicals delight me so. This five-minute ditty features a NASA scientist who explains the infrared technology of the Spitzer Space Telescope and its difference from other ...