Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent more than a year trying to get in touch with the sile ...

Astronomers have discovered a fascinating new object orbiting a small red star not far from Earth — a brown dwarf with powerful storms and cloudy weather patterns. The discovery, made with the help of ...

As New Horizons passed Pluto in July 2015, did the dwarf planet alter the probe's trajectory? Douglas KaupaCouncil Bluffs, ...

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and collapse into a dense, Earth-sized remnant called a white dwarf. Though it will no longer shine as it once did, this stellar core ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

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A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...