One of the most powerful eruptions in the universe might have spun an infrared ring around a rare and exotic star known as a magnetar—a highly magnetized neutron star formed in a brilliant supernova ...

Two upcoming episodes of the History Channel’s popular series The Universe will feature Pittsford resident and Rochester Institute of Technology professor Don Figer. A crew from the History Channel ...

Astronomers announced today that stars can be born big, but only so big. Theories over the years have predicted that an upper limit on stellar mass existed somewhere between 10 and 1,000 times the ...

Stars emerge fully grown from their natal clouds of gas and dust. Many are only a fraction of the sun’s size, but some are behemoths. However, a new study suggests that no star in our galaxy can weigh ...